Joseph Goodrich is an Edgar Award-winning playwright, acclaimed author and critic whose fiction, essays and poetry have appeared in such publications as Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mystery Scene, Noir Riot, Crimespree, Bullet (UK), Mystery Tribune, American Theatre, Popdust, and The Irish Echo.

His novel The Paris Manuscript was published in 2022 and Unusual Suspects: Selected Nonfiction in 2020 (both from Perfect Crime Books). His work is featured in two collections from Level Best Books, What the World Needs Now: Mysteries Inspired by the Music of Burt Bacharach, edited by Martin Edwards (2026) and Every Day a Little Death: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Steven Sondheim, edited by Josh Pachter (2025); and two Mystery Writers of America anthologies published by Grand Central, The Mystery Box, edited by Brad Meltzer (2013) and The Rich and the Dead, edited by Nelson DeMille (2011).

He is the editor of Shooting Script and Other Mysteries by William Link and Richard Levinson (Crippen & Landru, 2022), People in a Magazine: The Selected Letters of S. N. Behrman and his Editors at “The New Yorker” (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018) and the Anthony- and Agatha-nominated Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947-1950 (Perfect Crime Books, 2012).

His plays have been produced across the United States; in Canada, Australia and China; and published by Samuel French, Applause Books, Padua Hills Press and Playscripts, among others. His adaptations of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels The Red Box (2014) and Might As Well Be Dead (2017) had their world premieres at Park Square Theater, Saint Paul, MN.

Canada’s Vertigo Theater produced the world premiere of his adaptation of Ellery Queen’s Calamity Town, which received the 2016 Calgary Theater Critics Award for Best New Script. Panic won the 2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Play.

An alumnus of New Dramatists and a former Stanford Calderwood Fellow at MacDowell, he’s served on the board of MWA-NY and was the General Chair for the 2025 Edgar Awards. He divides his time between New York City and Dublin, Ireland.