Joseph Goodrich's play Panic received the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Play. Park Square Theater in Saint Paul, MN commissioned The Red Box and Might As Well Be Dead, the first Nero Wolfe mysteries adapted for the stage with the permission of the Rex Stout estate. His writing has been published by Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Mystery Scene, Crimespree and Noir Riot. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a former Calderwood Fellow at the MacDowell Colony.