Tod’s essay “The Outside In” was recently honored with a California Desert Arts Council KEEP ART ALIVE Grant:

How does self-quarantine look for New York Times bestselling author Tod Goldberg? His new essay “The Outside In,” which won a $500 grant from the California Desert Arts Council (CDAC) to “keep art alive,” brings you into his stir craziness.

“’The Outside In’ is a piece of narrative nonfiction which examines this strange new world we live in — with each other, without each other, and with the animals and people we too often ignore,” says Goldberg, a professor of creative writing at UC Riverside’s Palm Desert campus, where he founded and directs the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts.

CDAC and La Quinta Arts Foundation established a $50,000 Keep Art Alive fund to award grants to local artists and arts organizations who create thoughtful, inspiring, and relevant works responding to the crisis. 

Goldberg, author of more than a dozen books, is co-host of Literary Disco, named one of the best podcasts in the nation by the Washington Post, and Open Book on KCOD. His next book, The Low Desert, will be released in 2021