the wide circumference of love by marita golden

Marita Golden founded and served as the first president of the Washington-D.C. Articles and essays by Marita Golden have appeared in Essence Magazine, The New York Times and The Washington Post. She has also been a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and has appeared on ABC's Primetime Live. She has read from her work and held writer-in-residence positions at many schools, including Brandeis University, the University of the District of Columbia, Hampton University, Simmons College, Columbia College, William and Mary, Old Dominion University and Howard University. Marita Golden has lectured on the topic of literature, women's studies, African-American Studies and African American literature nationally and internationally. She has also taught at Emerson College, The University of Lagos (Nigeria), Roxbury Community College. As a memoirist and essayist, Golden has 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.Īll of Marita Golden's texts are widely read and used in college courses that represent a wide range of disciplines, from literature, African American Studies, and anthropology, to Women's Studies.Īs a teacher of writing, Marita Golden has held appointments at George Mason University, and Virginia Commonwealth University, where she served as a member of the MFA Graduate Creative Writing programs.

In the genre of nonfiction, Marita Golden has 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. 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. Marita Golden, local author and teacher, founder of both the Hurston/Wright Foundation and the African American Writers Guild, has spent more than 30 years teaching at many universities including George Mason and American University.

The wide circumference of love by marita golden