John C. Goodman is a Canadian writer and Pushcart Prize nominee. He has published two collections of poetry, Naked Beauty (Blue & Yellow Dog Press) and The Shepherd's Elegy (Knives, Forks and Spoons Press), as well as a novel, Talking to Wendigo (Turnstone Press), which was short-listed for an Arthur Ellis Award. He also authored the non-fiction work Poetry: Tools & Techniques (Gneiss Press). He is the past editor of ditch, an online magazine of experimental poetry.