A Ledger of Small Hours (2020)
A multi-voiced chronicle following four railroad telegraph operators during the winter of 1937, tracking the compromises people make to preserve their homes.
The Orchardist's Daughter (2016)
Her debut collection of linked novellas examining inheritance, apple cultivars, and sisters separated by industrial river commerce in the post-war Midwest.
The Quiet Season (2024)
Set along the drought-stricken river bluffs of eastern Iowa in 1954, a widowed county archivist uncovers land deeds that threaten three generations of silence.
Roundtree pays extraordinary attention to the unspoken contracts between neighbours. Her prose carries the tactile gravity of turned earth and hand-cast iron.
The Mid-Atlantic Review of Books
Parchment, drafts, and routine
Goldie began her writing life as a municipal court stenographer in Des Moines, recording testimony that shaped her enduring fascination with spoken cadence and suppressed motive. She writes each first draft by hand in bound ledger notebooks before typing clean copy on an Olympia manual typewriter.
Her essays on mid-century agrarian history and archival research have appeared in literary quarterlies nationwide. When not drafting, she cultivates heirloom pear varieties and hosts quarterly reading seminars for rural public libraries.
Goldie welcomes thoughtful reflections from readers, discussion questions from independent book circles, and invitations for university panels or festival readings.