[6] After college she went to France to improve her French language skills.

[7] Goodloe was a writer who specialized in short stories,[5][8] many of which were published in Scribner's Magazine.

[7] Books by Goodloe included Antinoüs: a tragedy (1891),[10] College Girls (1895, a collection of her stories, illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson),[11] Calvert of Strathore (1903, a novel),[12] At the Foot of the Rockies (1905, more short stories),[13][14] and The Star-Gazers (1910, a romance set in Mexico).

[15] Her style was described as "vivid", and "essentially clever and racy to a delightful degree", in an 1895 review.

Her story "Claustrophobia" (Scribner's, 1926) won an O. Henry Award in 1927; it was made into a film titled I Live My Life (1935), starring Joan Crawford and Brian Aherne.