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Goodyear graduated from Yale University in 1998, where she was Managing Editor of The New Journal, and was hired by The New Yorker in 1999.
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She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and teaches in the Master of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California. She became a staff writer in 2007. In 2008, she was named a Japan Society Media Fellow, and spent six weeks in Tokyo researching the emergence of the cell phone novel.
Her story, "I ♥ Novels", was published in The New Yorker and collected in "The Best Technology Writing 2009".
Figment officially launched on December 6, 2010. In 2005, Goodyear published "Honey and Junk", a collection of poems.
A new collection is forthcoming in the fall of 2012. Goodyear"s profile of James Cameron was a finalist for a 2010 National Magazine Award.
"Killer Food", about the chefs at Animal, a Los Angeles restaurant, was included in "The Best Food Writing 2010".
