Francisco Goldman (born 1954) is an American novelist, journalist, and Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College.

Francisco Goldman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Catholic Guatemalan mother and Jewish-American father.

He divides his time between Brooklyn and Mexico City; teaches creative writing and literature at Trinity College; and directs the Aura Estrada Prize.

His first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens (1992), won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction.

The Ordinary Seaman was named one of the 100 Best American Books of the Century by The Hungry Mind Review.

The paperback edition was published with an Afterword meant to rebut critics in a "disinformation campaign" against the conclusions of the book.

He established The Aura Estrada Prize in her honor, to be given every two years to a female writer, 35 or under, who writes in Spanish and lives in the United States or Mexico.