Newsletter sign up

Be the first to know when new American Life in Poetry columns are live.

D. R. Goodman

Oakland, California

D.R. Goodman is the author of Greed: A Confession (Abel Muse, 2014) and The Kids' Karate Workbook: A Take-Home Training Guide for Young Martial Artists (North Atlantic/Blue Snake Books, 2009). Before leaving academia to focus on writing and martial arts, she studied biology at Reed College in Oregon and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Goodman lives in Oakland, California, where she is founder and chief instructor at a martial arts school.

Column 543

Exiting the Night