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"Samara Golden: Upstairs at Steve's" includes text and images related to Golden's 2018-2020 artist residency and exhibition with The Fabric Workshop and Museum. With a foreword by the Executive Director Christina Vassallo and essays by Curator Karen Patterson, this publication traces the arc of the residency from conception to realization. In addition to images of the final installation, this publication includes exclusive behind-the-scenes images of the making of the installation.

Daughter of Sarpedon is an anthology of 48 short stories, poems, and drabbles centered around Medusa.

Maria Moses has always felt like an outsider in her family. Her mother, a princess from a deposed royal European family, is absorbed in herself and her social life. Her older sister, Miranda, busy with the seduction of older men and the trappings of luxury, alternatively ignores and despises her. And her well-intentioned father is too busy playing tennis to notice his younger daughter's growing dislocation. Maria is further removed from her family when a childhood friend dies in an accident and she is sent to boarding school for emotionally disturbed children. There, she is the victim of terrible crime that threatens to scar her permanently. Searching for validation, she finds Tino, a worldly older married man, who promises to elevate her above her family. But finding a life with him may cost Maria all she has left. Torn by the contradictions in her life, she must face up to her past and her family's legacy of lies and illegitimacy. Ranging from the lush summer playgrounds of the rich to windswept Scottish castles, Royal Blue is the evocative and humorous story of a young woman seeking a physical and spiritual home among the parties, palaces, and jet-set lifestyle of a dispossessed, fractured family. Royal Blue marks the impressive debut of a fresh and original voice in fiction.

What is the nature of pain and suffering? How does the body define the human condition? How does psychological makeup affect our identity and perception? The objective of my studio practice is to use painting and drawing to investigate these questions, exploring the experience of pain and suffering through the lens of phenomenology, mental illness, and morality. I am interested in the tension between the mind and body, creating imagery that emphasizes psychological states exhibited by the body, and I consider how the multiplicity of being--our many selves made up of mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical components--resists simplification and interpretation. The making of art allows me a medium to process and physically grapple with experiences and ideas, and, in giving visual form to my own questions about how we exist in the world, I hope to connect with others.