Joseph Goodrich is an Edgar Award-winning playwright (Panic) whose work has been produced across the United States as well as in Canada, China, and Australia, and published by Samuel French, Playscripts, Inc., Padua Hills Press, and Applause Books, among others. His adaptations of The Red Box and Might As Well Be Dead – the first officially-sanctioned stage versions of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe stories – had their world premieres at Park Square Theater in Saint Paul, MN. Canada’s Vertigo Theater produced the world premiere of his adaption of Ellery Queen’s Calamity Town, which received the 2016 Calgary Theater Critics Award for Best New Script. His novel The Paris Manuscript was published in 2022, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Mystery Scene and Crimespree. He is a published poet and has written for Marvel Comics’ Spiderman Unlimited. An active member of Mystery Writers of America, he is proud to have served as a board member of MWA-NY. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a former Calderwood Fellow at MacDowell. Born in Minnesota, he lives in New York City.