"Golden is back with an incisive sophomore collection of poetry and photography, equal parts tender wound and live wire"
– WBUR, Katherine Ouelette
“Reprise is a miraculous and immense book of returns and reinventions. This book is an act of rage, of affection, of innovation. An achievement.”
—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year
“Every once in a while a voice emerges with such clarity that it sings. Golden's language has incredible poise, sensuality, and truth wrapped around every word and syllable, the play, the erotic, the pulse of life all live within Golden's divine reach. Their repetition caresses you and the poetic compels you to your knees.”
—Fariha Róisín, author of How To Cure A Ghost
“Reprise is an unflinching work that fills us with commentary on a replay of history, past and present, and allows us to imagine a future of possibilities. I admire Golden’s experimentation with language, storytelling and imaging-making.”
—Deborah Willis, author of Posing Beauty in African American Culture
“Reprise is a miraculous and immense book of returns and reinventions. This book is an act of rage, of affection, of innovation. An achievement.”
—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year
“Every once in a while a voice emerges with such clarity that it sings. Golden's language has incredible poise, sensuality, and truth wrapped around every word and syllable, the play, the erotic, the pulse of life all live within Golden's divine reach. Their repetition caresses you and the poetic compels you to your knees.”
—Fariha Róisín, author of How To Cure A Ghost
“Reprise is an unflinching work that fills us with commentary on a replay of history, past and present, and allows us to imagine a future of possibilities. I admire Golden’s experimentation with language, storytelling and imaging-making.”
—Deborah Willis, author of Posing Beauty in African American Culture
"Golden is back with an incisive sophomore collection of poetry and photography, equal parts tender wound and live wire"
– WBUR, Katherine Ouelette
A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Poetry
“This collection is all glitter and grit, all eye-of-the-storm clarity, all fist and bullet and Black love and queer war. Golden is a confrontation of gender, a play on God’s first name, a beautiful mess of family archival, and a brilliant and dextere voice."
—Aurielle Marie, author of Gumbo Ya Ya
“A testimony of life ripe with weaponry and dire witness. These formally diverse poems and beautiful photographs incant spit and blood into and beyond ceremony"
—Phillip B. Williams, author of Ours
A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Poetry
“This collection is all glitter and grit, all eye-of-the-storm clarity, all fist and bullet and Black love and queer war. Golden is a confrontation of gender, a play on God’s first name, a beautiful mess of family archival, and a brilliant and dextere voice."
—Aurielle Marie, author of Gumbo Ya Ya
“A testimony of life ripe with weaponry and dire witness. These formally diverse poems and beautiful photographs incant spit and blood into and beyond ceremony"
—Phillip B. Williams, author of Ours
On Learning How to Live
On Learning How to Live, documents Black trans life at the intersections of survival and living in the United States. These self-portraits act as a living-archive, a world within a country that doesn’t want Black trans people alive.
Whether stating, I just want to wear my orange dress to the tennis courts & come back home unbothered, while in my apartment in Boston, Massachusetts, or sharing, I’m searching for & from freedom, while at my Grannie’s house in Pocomoke City, Maryland, these portraits reveal vulnerable windows into the questions I ask myself daily: What people do I belong to? How will I/they remember me? Where can I/we bridge, beacon, & be”
2023 Queer Art Illuminations Grant Award Winner
2023 Aperture/Google Labs Photo Fund Award Recipient
2021 Arnold Newman Prize Finalist
2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize Finalist
2021 Women Photograph Project Grant Award Recipient
On Learning How to Live
On Learning How to Live, documents Black trans life at the intersections of survival and living in the United States. These self-portraits act as a living-archive, a world within a country that doesn’t want Black trans people alive.
Whether stating, I just want to wear my orange dress to the tennis courts & come back home unbothered, while in my apartment in Boston, Massachusetts, or sharing, I’m searching for & from freedom, while at my Grannie’s house in Pocomoke City, Maryland, these portraits reveal vulnerable windows into the questions I ask myself daily: What people do I belong to? How will I/they remember me? Where can I/we bridge, beacon, & be”
2023 Queer Art Illuminations Grant Award Winner
2023 Aperture/Google Labs Photo Fund Award Recipient
2021 Arnold Newman Prize Finalist
2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize Finalist
2021 Women Photograph Project Grant Award Recipient
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