Thad Nodine is the author of Touch and Go, which won the Dana Award for the Novel. He is the inaugural winner of the Bookshop Santa Cruz residency at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods and the Writers’ Residency at Sandy Bend by Red Mountain Press. He is a journalist, writing coach, and author of the forthcoming policy guide, Toward Racial Justice in California’s Education Systems, for the Education Insights Center. He has written for a living all his life.

Here’s a short article about Thad and Touch and Go.