Gail Godwin is the bestselling author of numerous novels, including Unfinished Desires, Flora, Grief Cottage, and Old Lovegood Girls, and two story collections. A lifelong diarist, she has published the first two volumes of her journals, excerpts from which were published in Narrative. Godwin is also the author of Getting to Know Death: A Meditation (Bloomsbury, 2024) and Heart: A Natural History of the Heart-Filled Life. She lives in Woodstock, New York.
Photograph by Jolanta Drozd Kaminski.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Art of Becoming a Citizen: A Meditation, a nonfiction excerpt, in Fall 2024
- The Desperate Place, a memoir, in Fall 2021
- Old Lovegood Girls, a novel excerpt, in Winter 2020
- Possessions, a novel excerpt, in Spring 2017
- Publishing Partners: The First Eight Books, 1970–1985, a memoir, in Winter 2015
- Flora, a novel excerpt, in Spring 2013
- By Hand, a feature, in Winter 2012
- The Making of a Writer, a journal, in Winter 2011
- Using Yourself Up, a narrative outloud - audio, in Winter 2010
- Unfinished Desires: Maud, Christmas 1951, a short story, in Winter 2010
- Gail Godwin, an interview, in Winter 2010
- Solo Notes, a journal, in Fall 2007
- The Making of a Writer, a review or criticism, in Fall 2006