On March 19th - two weeks from today - we’ll launch our 5th Season of Creativists in Dialogue. Until then, we offer a repost of one of last year’s interviews that sparked quite a bit of interest: Part 1 of our conversation with award-winning author Marita Golden.
Photograph by Stephanie Williams.
Marita Golden is the author of 22 critically acclaimed novels and nonfiction works. She has worked with hundreds of emerging and published writers at various stages in their development, helping them work through the fear and anxiety that is part of the creative writing process. Indeed, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, who is one of Marita Golden’s mentors, said, “It is always heartening to see women step up to the writer’s table.”
In 1990, with Clyde McIlvain, Marita Golden founded the Hurston/Wright Foundation, whose mission is to discover, mentor, and honor Black writers. Her many books include the novels A Woman’s Place, Long Distance Life, and Do Remember Me, The Edge of Heaven, After, and The Wide Circumference of Love.
Her nonfiction books include Migrations of the Heart, Don’t Play the Sun, One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex, A Miracle Every Day, Triumph and Transformation in the Lives of Single Mothers, Saving Our Sons, Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World, and her recently released memoir, How to Be a Black Writer.
She has won scores of awards and accolades, including the NAACP Image Award, the Maryland Author Award from the Association of Maryland Libraries, the Award for Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, the Authors Guild’s Distinguished Service Award, the Barnes and Noble’s Writers for Writers Award, Woman of the Year Award from Zeta Phi Beta, an honorary doctorate from the University of Richmond, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from American University.
For more on Marita, click her website.
To purchase her latest book, How to Become a Black Writer: Creating and Honoring Black Stories That Matter, click here.
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