Makenna Goodman

Makenna Goodman is an American novelist and editor based in Vermont. She is the author of The Shame, named a best book of the year by The White Review, and Helen of Nowhere, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026. She has written for the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Harvard Review, The White Review, and BOMB, and has worked as a book editor for two decades.