Renata Golden’s essay collection Mountain Time: A Field Guide to Astonishment, winner of the Southwest Book Award, was published in spring of 2024 as the inaugural book of the Columbus State University Press Nature Series in conjunction with the University of Georgia Press. Other essays and poems have been published in anthologies including The Nature of Our Times from Paloma Press; Dawn Songs edited by Jamie Reaser and J. Drew Lanham; First and Wildest: The Gila at 100 from Torrey House Press; and When Birds Are Near published by Cornell University Press, as well as numerous literary journals. Her essays have been finalists for the River Teeth Nonfiction Contest, Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Award. Renata has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Originally from the South Side of Chicago, she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. To read more, visit renatagolden.com.
