Sierra Golden received her MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. Winner of the program’s 2012 Academy of American Poets Prize, Golden’s work appears in literary journals such as Prairie Schooner, Permafrost, and Ploughshares. She has also been awarded residencies by Hedgebrook, the Island Institute, and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. Although she calls Washington State home, Golden has spent many summers in Alaska, working as a commercial fisherman. She was a 2015-2016 Made at Hugo House Fellow and now works in communications at Casa Latina, a nonprofit empowering Latino immigrants through employment, education, and community organizing.

Other poems by Sierra Golden in Verse Daily:
May 5, 2013:   "To Margot Kidder, With Love" "I spent the summer of 1980 with Margot Kidder..."

Other poems on the web by Sierra Golden:
"Town Day"
Two poems
Two poems
Four poems
"Gracias"
"Pleasure"

Sierra Golden's Website.