Francisco Goldman is an American novelist, journalist, and Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College. Goldman is also known as Francisco Goldman Molina, "Frank" and "Paco". He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Guatemalan Catholic mother and Jewish-American father. Goldman attended Hobart College, the University of Michigan and the New School for Social Research Seminar College, and studied translation at New York University. He has taught at Columbia University in the MFA program; Brooklyn College; the Institute of New Journalism in Cartagena,... Colombia; Mendez Pelayo Summer Institute in Santander, Spain; the North American Institute in Barcelona, Spain. He has been a resident of UCross Foundation. Francisco Goldman was rewarded the Mary Ellen von der Heyden fellowship for Fiction. Francisco Goldman has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2010 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's and many other publications.
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