Joey Goebel
| Joey Goebel | |
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| Born |
2 September 1980 Henderson, Kentucky, United States |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable works | see Bibliography |
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Adam Joseph "Joey" Goebel III (born 2 September 1980) is an American author whose work centers around the peculiarities of culture in Middle America. He was raised in Henderson, Kentucky, a small town on the Ohio River across from Evansville, Indiana. His parents, Adam Goebel of Louisville, and Nancy Bingemer Goebel of Henderson, were both social workers and met in Frankfort, Kentucky. His older sister CeCe is also a social worker.
Goebel's books have been published in over ten languages and have found their largest audience in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Goebel currently lives in Kentucky, with wife Micah. Goebel's third novel, Commonwealth, was published on July 4, 2008.
Goebel attended Brescia University in Owensboro, Kentucky, where he received an English degree with an emphasis in professional writing. He has received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Spalding University in Louisville.
MacAdam/Cage Publishing of San Francisco published Goebel's first book The Anomalies in April 2003. The Anomalies was a Book Sense 76 title selected by the nation's independent booksellers and was nominated for the Kentucky Literary Award. Goebel's second novel, Torture the Artist, was released in October 2004, also by MacAdam/Cage. Torture the Artist was the finalist for the 2004 Kentucky Literary Award and made the long list for the Dylan Thomas Prize for 2006.
In fall of 2005, Torture the Artist was published in German under the title Vincent by Diogenes Verlag, a Swiss literary publisher. Goebel attended the Frankfurt Book Fair, and he and Vincent were featured in Der Spiegel.
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