Stephanie Golden
(she/her) Alum, MentorStephanie Golden is an award-winning author, collaborator, journalist, and book doctor in Brooklyn, NY. Her book “The Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness” was a finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and received Honorable Mention, Emily Toth Award (Popular Culture Association). She also wrote “Slaying the Mermaid: Women and the Culture of Sacrifice” and eight books with experts, mostly on medicine, fitness, and health. And (since freelancers need a lot of skills to make a living) she’s also written websites, grant proposals, newsletters, training manuals, and reports. She’s published articles and essays in Tricycle, Yoga Journal, The Startup, Aeon.co, Salon, Tricycle, Curator Magazine, The Manifest-Station, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, and an anthology, Loving Arrangements: Stories About Modern Living and Loving,” and fiction in The Summerset Review.
Artist‘s Statement
I like to explore how personal issues that are important to me connect to larger social issues, and I like to dive deep. Often my essays take a long time to write because my thinking evolves over months or years. I can tell when I’ve got it by the way my prose sounds, almost like listening to music. When the rhythm of the sentences sounds exactly right to my ear, I know the ideas are solid.