Author Renata Golden Launches Mountain Time

Ris a Santa Fe-based writer, editor, and naturalist whose essay collection Mountain Time: A Field Guide to Astonishment, is published this month 2024 as the inaugural title in a nature series from DLJ Books at CSU Press, marketed by University of Georgia Press, and is available from local bookstores. The collection focuses on the Chiricahua Mountains on the Arizona/New Mexico border just north of the Mexico border.

Renata Golden has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston. Her essays have been published widely in anthologies. Originally from the South Side of Chicago, she now lives in the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

A book- launch signing and reading by the author of Mountain Time will happen at Bookworks in Albuquerque as part of the Writing the Wild series in partnership with the Leopold Writing Program. Among the book’s essays are one about prairie dog language, an “eight-snake day” and slave-making ants.

Bookworks, 4022 Rio

Grande Blvd NW,

Albuquerque, NM

March 15th, 2024, 6:00 PM

Another Mountain Time booksigning and reading by Renata Golden will happen March 30th at 4:30 PM at Garcia Street Books, 376 Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM. Renata Golden will also lead a free pm bird walk and discussion of Mountain Time at Valle del Oro National Wildlife Refuge on the Rio Grande just south of Albuquerque, NM.

Possible additional readings in northern New Mexico are in planning.

More information on author Renata Golden may be found at her webpage: RenataGolden.com ■