Hannah R. Goodman

Often referred to as “the teenage whisperer”, Hannah R. Goodman’s twenty-year career working with teenagers includes the titles teacher, tutor, coach, and, more recently, mental health counselor. Hannah has written essays about mental health for various online publications. Her work has appeared on MindBodyGreen, OC87 Recovery Diaries, Zencare.co, and The Mighty. Though she has previously earned the title author with her first three books, the last was released in 2009 and all were self-published. This time around, indie publisher Black Rose Writing released her novel Till It Stops Beating this summer.\nHannah's first YA novel, My Sister’s Wedding, won the first place award for The Writer’s Digest International Self-Publishing Contest, 2004, children’s book division. She published the follow-up, My Summer Vacation, in May 2006, which went on to win a bronze IPPY in 2007. The third Maddie book, Fear of Falling, was released in the fall of 2009 and was praised by teachers and readers for tackling subjects like homophobia and coming out. She’s published young adult short stories on Amazon’s Shorts, in an anthology entitled Bound Is The Bewitching Lilith, and in the journal Balancing The Tides. She also has written columns for The Jewish Voice \u0026amp; Herald. Recent, previous projects include Sucker Literary, which features emerging YA authors and All The Way YA, a group blog of writers telling the real deal about writing and publishing YA fiction. \n\nHannah is a member of ARIA (Association of Rhode Island Authors) as well as a graduate of Pine Manor College's Solstice Program in Creative Writing where she earned an MFA in Writing For Young People. She resides in Bristol, RI with her husband, two daughters, and black and white cat named Zoe\n\nYou can find Hannah:\nGoodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/969127.Hannah_R_Goodman\nTwitter: @hannahrgoodman\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/tillitstopsbeatingnovel/\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tillitstopsbeating/\nLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-goodman-76b9596/\nAmazon Author Central: https://www.amazon.com/Hannah-R.-Goodman/e/B002BLU56K\nWebsite: https://www.hannahrgoodman.com\nEmail: hrgwriterwoman@gmail.com\n\n