Renata Golden

Renata is a writer, editor, and naturalist. Mountain Time: A Field Guide to Astonishment, her essay collection about the Chiricahua Mountains on the Arizona/New Mexico border just north of the Mexico border, was published March 2024 as the inaugural title in a nature series from DLJ Books at CSU Press, marketed by University of Georgia Press. The book won the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association, and was a finalist for the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award and the Southwest Book Design Award. About Mountain Time, Publishers Weekly says, "Golden unites nature and humankind into a breathtaking, give-and-take dance, transporting readers from immigrant stories and insightful explorations of displaced Indigenous peoples to considerations of the animals at her doorstep, all connected by threads of love and respect."

 

Mountain Time: A Field Guide to Astonishment is available from your favorite bookseller.

 

Renata's essays have been published by River Teeth, Creative Nonfiction Magazine True Stories, Chautauqua Literary Journal, About Place Journal, Terrain.org, and Border Crossing, among other publications. She also has essays in the anthologies First and Wildest, an anthology to celebrate the centennial of the Gila Wilderness from Torrey House Press, and When Birds Are Near from Cornell University Press, edited by Susan Fox Rogers. Her haibun titled "How I Spend My New Summers" appears in Dawn Songs: A Birdwatcher's Field Guide to the Poetics of Migration, edited by Jamie K. Reaser and J. Drew Lanham. Other poems appear in The Galway Review.

 
Renata has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston and serves as reviews editor and board member of Terrain.org. Originally from the South Side of Chicago, she now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Check out this conversation between Renata and Joni Tevis in Orion Magazine about astonishment!

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