Sierra Golden was born in Alaska and raised in rural Washington State. Her father has been a commercial fisherman for over forty years, and she worked as a deckhand on his boat F/V Challenger for eight summers. In 2012, she completed an MFA in poetry at North Carolina State University. She currently lives in Seattle, where she works in communications at Casa Latina, a nonprofit organization advancing the power and well-being of Latino immigrants. Winner of a Rane Arroyo Chapbook Prize, she has been awarded residencies and fellowships by the Elizabeth George Foundation, Hedgebrook, Hugo House, the Island Institute, and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. She writes for National Fisherman, and her poems appear in literary journals such as Prairie Schooner, Orion Magazine, and Ploughshares. THE SLOW ART (Bear Star Press, 2018) is her latest book.

Other poems by Poet Name in Verse Daily:
October 29, 2017:   "The Sound of Oars" "I'm here, Jack, like you say, listening to the sound of oars..."

Books by Sierra Golden:

Other poems on the web by Sierra Golden:
"The Song of a Boat"
Four poems
"Town Day"
Two poems
Two poems
Four poems
"Gracias"
"Pleasure"

Sierra Golden's Website.