Igor Goldkind

Igor Goldkind is an author, poet, and independent scholar. At the age of 14, Igor served as a volunteer Science Fiction Coordinator for the now wildly popular San Diego Comic-Con. It was in this capacity that he met Ray Bradbury, whom he asked for advice about becoming a writer. Through Comic-Con, Igor also befriended Theodor Sturgeon and Harlan Ellison, two of his major influences.

He worked in the British comic publishing industry in the early '90s and is best known for having coined the Graphic Novel genre as a global publishing genre. In 2016, his award-winning multimedia novel published by Chameleon Publishing IS SHE AVAILABLE?, broke ground in combining Poetry, Comics, Jazz, and Animation setting a new bar in electronic publishing. He continued to blend poetry with art in

His most recent work is a unique collection of fully illustrated poetry, fables, and philosophies, Take a Deep Breath, Living With Uncertainty, is a book aimed at the pandemic of crisis anxiety so many of us are living through.

“…in dark and mendacious times we need poetry because its careful, precise way with language is a form of truth-telling.”  
Amit Majmudar, The New Yorker


“Igor takes you into the guts of the pandemic and gives you a tour of the struggles and trials of the everyday environment of the virus that

is stalking this dystopian pandemic world of the year 2020. Wide-ranging, he takes you from trans-global to the nightly news of the day

that is rocketing past at roller coaster speed, pure emotive emotions so personal that it makes you sit back and wonder at the writing here and what you have just read”. – Chris Vannoy - US Beat Poet Laureate 2019




Igor writes and lives in San Diego, California but misses the UK.

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