Mountain Time - An Author Talk with Renata Golden

Join us for a discussion of Renata Golden's new book Mountain Time: A Field Guide to Astonishment, which was published in March 2024 by CSU Press/UGA Press. The discussion will be lead by local journalist Laura Paskus. 

About the Author:

Renata Golden has studied the natural world along the borderlands of Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico for decades. Her essays and poems have been published widely, including in Creative Nonfiction, True Stories, River Teeth, Border Crossing, About Place Journal, Chautauqua, and many other literary journals. Her work has been anthologized in Dawn Songs: A Birdwatcher’s Field Guide to the Poetics of Migration by Talking Waters Press; First and Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100 by Torrey House Press; and When Birds Are Near from Cornell University Press. Her work has been a finalist for many awards, including the River Teeth Nonfiction Contest, Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Award. In 2021 she was awarded the Douglas Preston travel grant from New Mexico Writers to complete her research for Mountain Time. She has held residencies at Storyknife in Alaska and Write on, Door County and currently serves as reviews editor and board member for Terrain.org. Renata earned an MFA from the University of Houston. Originally from the South Side of Chicago, she now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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