Golden, Marita

Marita Golden, award-winning Washington author and teacher, founder of both the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation (1990) and the African American Writers Guild, has spent more than 30 years teaching at many universities including George Mason, American University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Her fiction includes the novel After, Long Distance Life, (a best-seller, cited as a "Best Book of the Year" by The Washington Post), A Woman's Place, And Do Remember Me, and The Edge of Heaven. In nonfiction, she edited two anthologies, Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex; and with writer Susan Shreve, Skin Deep: Black and White Women on Race and the book Don't Play in the Sun. As a memoirist and essayist, she authored Migrations of the Heart, Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World, and A Miracle Everyday: Triumph and Transformation in the Lives of Single Mothers. She has lectured nationally and internationally and has read from her work and held writer-in-residence positions at many colleges. She is writer in residence at the University of the District of Columbia.