Maya Golden
Maya Golden Bethany is an Associated Press winning and Emmy nominated multimedia journalist. Her debut memoir, The Return Trip, will release in November 2023 and her first novel, a political thriller, The Senator, will release in spring 2025 through Rising Action Publishing Collective. Maya is the winner of the Excellence in My Market Award (EMMA) from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She is the founder of the 1 in 3 Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides recovery and counseling resources to survivors of sexual trauma with little to no income in East Texas. Maya has been featured on Bally Sports, Fox Sports College, ESPN 2 and 3 and other broadcast mediums including Blackgirlnerds.com. She speaks as a survivor for organizations such as the Children’s Advocacy Center, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) and Kids Aspiring to Dream. The Texas A&M alum’s career includes experience as a sports anchor/reporter and television production editor, newscast writer, field producer and print writer. She is a member of the Writer’s League of Texas. She writes fiction under Maya Golden Bethany.
Maya is a second-place winner of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2024 Parent-Writer Fellowship.
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