Golden (poet)
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- Poet
- artist
- A Dead Name That Learned How to Live
- Reprise
- Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry finalist (2023, 2026)
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Golden is a gender-nonconforming[1] American poet and artist. Their poetry collections A Dead Name That Learned How to Live and Reprise were finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry in 2023 and 2026.[2][3]
Career
Poetry
Golden's debut poetry collection, A Dead Name That Learned How to Live, was published by Game Over Books in 2022.[4] WBUR reported that the book grew out of Golden's NYU thesis project of the same name and examined family history and personal identity.[4] In In These Times, Sherell Barbee interviewed Golden about the book in relation to photography, family, place, and gender.[7] The collection was a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.[2]
Golden's second collection, Reprise: Poems and Photographs, was published by Haymarket Books in 2025.[8] It was a finalist for the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.[3]
Photography and visual art
Golden's visual work includes portraiture, self-portraiture, and images made with family archives.[4][5] Their photographic series On Learning How to Live was a finalist for the 2021 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture.[9]
Golden was a Neighborhood Salon Luminaries fellow at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.[10] In In These Times, Golden said that a later Gardner Museum commission responded to Boston's Apollo, an exhibition about John Singer Sargent and Thomas McKeller.[7]
From 2020 to 2021, Golden was a Boston Artist-in-Residence.[11] During the residency, they proposed a public mural honoring Rita Hester, a Black transgender woman from Allston. The City of Boston commissioned artist Rixy to create the mural, Rita's Spotlight, which was installed in 2022.[12] In 2023, Golden's exhibition I'm Never Alone was shown at Brookline Arts Center's Beacon Street Gallery.[5]