About
Theresa (Ted) Gooda is a poet, playwright, ghostwriter and former English and Drama teacher.
She is the co-founder of BilliLit, a book festival in Billingshurst, and the Farnham Literary Festival co-ordinator. She is chair of West Sussex Writers, a director of the Shelley Memorial Project, and an editor at the National Writing Project (UK).
Her verse drama Mannequim will be performed as part of the 2025 Brighton Fringe Festival. Her debut poetry pamphlet Silence & Selvedge was published in 2024. She wrote the libretto for Beware the Mackerel Sky, a folk opera produced by Bernardi Music Group, in 2023. Her play Beck & Calling was also produced in 2023. She has ghost-written more than 17 memoirs.
Theresa was awarded her PhD from the University of Sussex in 2022. Her research centred on reading pedagogy in secondary schools.
She lives in West Sussex.