Reprise

Golden (they/them) is a Black, gender-nonconforming, trans photographer, poet, educator, curator, and community organizer raised in Hampton, Virginia (Kikotan land), and currently residing in Brooklyn, New York (Lenapehoking land). Golden is the author of A DEAD NAME THAT LEARNED HOW TO LIVE (Game Over Books, 2022), a Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2023, and the photographic series On Learning How to Live, a 2021 Arnold Newman Photography Prize finalist. On Learning How to Live documents Black trans life at the intersections of surviving and living in the United States. Golden holds a BFA in photography and imaging from New York University.

“Reprise, as the title may suggest, is a miraculous and immense book of returns and reinventions. The beauty of Golden's work is the close attention paid to ideas, to objects, to people and place, a close attention that makes the poems as limitless as the subjects. This book is an act of rage, of affection, of innovation. An achievement.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year“Golden has given us a burning frame that resists any easy gaze at Black skin, Black memory, or Black voice. Golden announces, ‘I will die… so let this be...without the language of glory.’ Reprise is defiant, sublime, incandescent. Reprise is about chosen birth. The language of limb, nigga, and stanza is so original, so unforgettably revelatory, that I'm certain we will keep returning to the face of these poems and images to see ourselves revealed and confronted here.”—Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of Promise“Reprise is an unflinching work that fills us with commentary on a replay of history, past and present, and allows us to imagine a future of possibilities. I admire Golden’s experimentation with language, storytelling and imaging-making.”—Deborah Willis, author of Posing Beauty in African American Culture