Martin J. Goodman
presently working as the head of the Creative Writing department at the University of Hull
Martin J. Goodman (born in Leicester in 1956) is an English journalist and writer.
Early life
Martin Goodman went to Loughborough Grammar School. He is Emeritus professor at the University of Hull, where he was Professor of Creative Writing 2009-2019 and Director of the Philip Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing. Before moving to Hull, Martin Goodman was lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth. He completed his PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 2007.
Career
Martin Goodman writes both fiction and nonfiction. His most recent book of nonfiction is My Head for a Tree, an account of the Bishnoi of India and their religion. His Client Earth, May 2017, from Scribe Publications. tells the story of ecolawyers saving the planet, and was co-written with his husband the environmental lawyer James Thornton. They presented the work at the Sydney Opera House's Antidote Festival in September 2017.
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