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Tod Goldberg (1971-) is an American author and journalist, best known for his novels Fake Liar Cheat (Pocket Books/MTV) and Living Dead Girl (Soho Press), and the short story collections Simplify (OV Books) and Other Resort Cities. He is the brother of novelist Lee Goldberg and authors Linda Woods and Karen Dinino, as well as the nephew of true crime writer Burl Barer.

Goldberg's second novel, Living Dead Girl, was a finalist for the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best mystery and was featured as one of January Magazine's top novels of 2002. His third book, Simplify, culled stories from the past decade of his career into one volume, the first published by OV Books, the book publishing arm of the literary journal Other Voices. It received notable reviews in numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and Chicago Sun-Times and was named a 2006 Finalist for the Southern California Booksellers Association Award in Fiction. His next book of short stories, Other Resort Cities, was released in October 2009 by OV Books to wide acclaim, including a rave review from the Los Angeles Times.

He is also the author of original novels based on the USA Network TV series Burn Notice. The novels to date are "The Fix", The End Game, and The Giveaway .

In 2005, he was named Teacher of the Year by the students at the UCLA Extension program, where he taught creative writing. He's currently the Administrative Director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at UC Riverside's Palm Desert, CA campus.

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