Golden Golden is a photographer, poet, and educator raised in Hampton, VA (Kikotan land), currently residing in Boston (Massachusett people’s land). They are the author of A Dead Name That Learned How to Live (Game Over Books, 2022), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Transgender Poetry (2023), and Reprise (Haymarket Books, 2025).
Golden currently teaches photography at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston. Their published and collaborative work can be found in The Yale Review, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Vogue, Women Photograph, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
At MacDowell, Golden continued to expand their photographic series On Learning How to Live, an Arnold Newman Prize Finalist (2021), documenting Black trans life at the intersections of surviving and living in the United States.
Portrait by Golden Golden
