Stories Will Reveal Themselves Through Our Stillness w/ Marita Golden, author of The Strong Black Woman + 19 more works of fiction & nonfiction

The Be Well Beautiful People Podcast

In a professional writing career that spans more than twenty years, Marita Golden has distinguished herself as a novelist, essayist, teacher of writing and literary institution builder. She has written twenty books of nonfiction and fiction which includes Long Distance Life which was a best-seller and cited as a Best Book of the Year (by Washington Post critic Jonathan Yardley), A Woman’s Place, And Do Remember Me, and The Edge of Heaven. In the genre of nonfiction, Marita Golden has also edited three anthologies including Gumbo: An Anthology of African America Writing with E. Lynn Harris. She has also been a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show and her articles and essays have appeared in Essence Magazine, the New York Times and The Washington Post. Additionally, Marita founded and served as the first president of the Washington-D.C. based African American Writers Guild. Since 1990 she has headed the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, which presents the nation’s only national fiction award for college writers of African descent and an annual summer writer’s workshop for Black writers, Hurston/Wright Writers’ Week, as well as the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for published Black writers.