Daniel Ross Goodman is a writer, an ordained rabbi, and a Ph.D. candidate at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) of America in New York. A former contributor to the Books & Arts section of The Weekly Standard and current contributor to the Washington Examiner, he has published in numerous academic and popular journals, magazines, and newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, Tablet, the Jewish Review of Books, and the Harvard Divinity Bulletin. His short stories have appeared in over a dozen literary journals, including aaduna, The Cortland Review, Aurora Wolf, and The Acentos Review. 

His first novel, A Single Life, was published in 2020, and his first nonfiction book, Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Wonder and Religion in American Cinema, ​is forthcoming from Lexington Books.