Marita Golden

Co-founder and president emeritus of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, Marita Golden is a veteran teacher of writing and an acclaimed award-winning author of over a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. As a teacher of writing, she has served as a member of the faculties of the MFA graduate creative writing programs at George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University, and in the MA creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University. She has taught writing workshops nationally and internationally to a variety of constituencies.

Among her books are the novels After and The Edge of Heaven and the memoirs Migrations of the Heart, Saving Our Sons, and Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex. She compiled the collection of interviews THE WORD: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing. Her most recent book is Living Out Loud: A Writer’s Journey. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Writers for Writers Award presented by Barnes & Noble and Poets and Writers and the Fiction Award for her novel After, awarded by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.