Marita Golden

Marita Golden is an award-winning author of over 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, a master teacher of writing, coach, mentor, and a literary and creative writing consultant. As a literary activist, she co-founded the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. Marita works with writers to help them skillfully and powerfully tell their story. In her workshops, her coaching, and manuscript evaluation she enables writers to write in their most authentic, creative, and personal literary voice. She has worked with many published writers. Among the acclaimed writers she has worked with are novelists Nicole Dennis Benn, Tope Folarin, Sadeqa Johnson as well as memoirist Karen Gray Houston. MARITA HAS BEEN FEATURED ON: • The Oprah Winfrey Show • C-SPAN • Tuesday's with Maria Shriver • Roland Martin Unfiltered • Jeopardy! [Question: Novelist Marita Golden Paid Homage To This Woman In An Essay Called Zora & Me] Her books include ... MEMOIRS: • Migrations of the Heart • Saving Our Sons Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World • Don't Play in the Sun One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex NONFICTION: • The Strong Black Woman How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women NOVELS: • After • Long Distance Life • The Wide Circumference of Love • The Edge of Heaven I HAVE TAUGHT CREATIVE WRITING AT: • Johns Hopkins University • The University of the District of Columbia • George Mason University • Virginia Commonwealth University • The University of Tel Aviv I have lectured at many schools including: • Norfolk State University • University of Nevada at Las Vegas • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Yale University WRITING AND LITERARY ACTIVISM AWARDS: • NAACP Image Award nominations for AFTER and The Wide Circumference of Love • Distinguished Service Award (Authors Guild) • Distinguished Service Award (African American Writers Guild) • Washington Dateline Award for Local Journalism • Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers Award (Poets and Writers) • International Literary Hall of Fame of Writers of African Descent Inductee (Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University) • Maryland Author Award (Association of Maryland Librarians) • Award for Fiction (Black Caucus of the American Library Association) • Excellence in Leadership “Strong Woman” Award (Dominion Power) • Distinguished Alumni Award (American University) • Woman of the Year Award (Zeta Phi Beta Sorority) • Honorary Doctor of Arts and Letters (University of Richmond) • “Virginia Hero” Award • Sarton/Gilda Award for Nonfiction • Distinguished Black Women Award (Black Women in Sisterhood for Action, Inc.) • Faculty of the Year (Phi Delta Kappa University of the District of Columbia) • Included in Columbia Heights Heritage Trail in Washington, D.C. Are you ready to write? Visit my website at maritagolden.com to register for my creative writing workshops!