{"id":407,"date":"2023-05-26T07:13:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/?page_id=407"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:57:13","slug":"sierra-golden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/sierra-golden\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Golden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierrahgolden.com\/\">http:\/\/www.sierrahgolden.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sierra Golden<\/strong>\u00a0graduated with an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. As winner of the 2018 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize, her debut collection\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bearstarpress.com\/books\/TheSlowArt.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Slow Art<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>was published by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearstarpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bear Star Press<\/a>.\u00a0<em>The Slow Art<\/em>\u00a0was also a finalist for the 2019 Washington State Book Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Golden&#8217;s poems appear in literary journals such as\u00a0<em>Prairie Schooner, Permafrost<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Ploughshares<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has been awarded fellowships and residencies by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hedgebrook.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hedgebrook,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hugohouse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Hugo House<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethgeorgeonline.com\/foundation.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Elizabeth George Foundation<\/a>. Although she calls Washington State home, Golden spent many summers in Alaska, working as a commercial fisherman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"898\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SG.jpg?resize=898%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SG.jpg?w=898&amp;ssl=1 898w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SG.jpg?resize=300%2C105&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SG.jpg?resize=768%2C269&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/confluencepoets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SG.jpg?resize=150%2C53&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.sierrahgolden.com\/ Sierra Golden\u00a0graduated with an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University. As winner of the 2018 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize, her debut collection\u00a0The Slow Art\u00a0was published by\u00a0Bear Star Press.\u00a0The Slow Art\u00a0was also a finalist for the 2019 Washington State Book Award. Golden&#8217;s poems appear in literary journals such as\u00a0Prairie Schooner, Permafrost,\u00a0and\u00a0Ploughshares.\u00a0 She has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-407","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/confluencepoets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}