Golden is the recipient of a City of Boston Artist-in-Residence (2020-2021), a Pink Door Fellowship (2017/2019), an Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Luminaries Fellowship (2019), the Frontier Award for New Poets (2019), a Best of the Net Award (2020), and a Pushcart Prize nomination (wildness, 2019 & Glass Poetry, 2020). Golden also was selected as a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Prize (2021) & the Queer|Art Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists (2020).
Their work has been featured on/at the Offing, Button Poetry, Buzzfeed, i-D, Interview Magazine, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Gordon Parks Foundation, & elsewhere. Golden holds a BFA in Photography from New York University (2018).