Raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Western Montana, Kevin Goodan began working for the U.S. Forest Service at a young age, and attended the Universities of Montana and Massachusetts. He has lived in Northern Ireland, and lectured at universities on terrorism. His poems have been published in Ploughshares and other journals. Currently, he resides on a small farm in Western Massachusetts.

"In these tight bursts of images Goodan displays a thrilling facility to observe the minutiae of the natural world, to inhabit the simple moments of the earth’s music, and to distill these observations into language that will continue to resonate in the body long after it's been read."
—Marc Beaudin, Big Sky Journal

"Goodan marks where human interest and the natural world meet, or sometimes clash. He echoes Emily Dickinson ... The pages are rain-soaked and ghost-haunted, creating a slightly melancholy atmosphere. He's a new name for me though this is his seventh collection; I'd happily read more."
—Rebecca Foster, Bookish Beck

"Kevin Goodan’s In the Days That Followed was the best companion on a Metro-North train cross-states. Atmospheric, lyrical, contemplative, it was the escape and slowdown I needed."
—Joseph O. Legaspi

"How to live in a world bent on falling and burning and yet so tenderly and urgently alive? In this collection-as-invocation, Kevin Goodan hovers between all that is unequivocally gone and all that is not yet given to see, listening, witnessing, and offering up luminous gifts that are absolutely 'part of the readying.'"
—Lia Purpura