Louis Godfrey

For almost twenty years now, I have worked as a professional writer in one capacity or another. It started on a rainy day in 2005, when I was watching C-SPAN. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) had taken to the floor to speak about, of all things, rural roads in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. I’m a native of the state, so it’s a part of the world I know well, and the Senator’s speech sparked my interest in the long-running controversy over local control of pre-existing roads grandfathered in when the monument was established in 1996.

On a whim, I pitched an article idea to the Salt Lake City Weekly, the alternative newspaper I’d been reading for as long as I could remember, and to my surprise they took me up on it. I got in my beat-up Ford, drove to Kane County, and figured out what I was doing on the fly. That was my first feature in the paper, and over the next five years I’d cover the state legislature, the Congressional delegation, and high-profile court cases. I even convinced them to let me write about baseball.

In 2010, I relocated to North Carolina, and turned my focus to writing film and arts criticism, sometimes as it related to current events, such as Occupy Wall Street. In 2014, I moved to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting, and in addition to working on a number of writing projects.

I’ve also spent time working in television news production as a video editor, audio mixer and floor director, as well as in the cinema camera rental industry.

Most often described as surprisingly agreeable, and funny but not too funny.