Hannah R. Goodman’s over-twenty-year career working with teenagers includes the titles teacher, tutor, coach, and, now, licensed 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, those were all were self-published. In 2018, publisher Black Rose Writing released her novel Till It Stops Beating . Literary Titan’s review praised Till It Stops Beating for “tackling a difficult issue like anxiety and making a story that was funny and sweet without making light of the issue.” Her newest book I Love That Girl is forthcoming by The Wild Rose Press.
Hannah'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 & Herald. Other previous projects include Sucker Literary, which featured emerging YA authors and All The Way YA, a group blog of writers telling the real deal about writing and publishing YA fiction.