Elyssa Maxx Goodman

I'm a New York-based writer and photographer specializing in
non-fiction writing and documentary photography.

My book Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag
in New York City is out now from Hanover Square Press.
It was named a 2024 Stonewall Honor Book for the
Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award, one of Vogue’s
Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2023, one of Booklist’s Best
History Books of 2023, and was shortlisted for
a Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction.

I have presented my work on drag history on CNN,
at the New York Public Library, the New-York Historical
Society, Carnegie Mellon University, the Center for
Brooklyn History, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club,
the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation,
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community
Center, the Brooklyn Book Festival, the Miami Book Fair,
and more.