GOLDIE PEACOCK

writing that glitters from
the intersections

About

About Goldie

Goldie Peacock writes stories, essays, and poems. Their words appear in HuffPost, Sundog Lit, MoonPark Review, and more. As a dance-based drag performer, Goldie spent over a decade bouncing between genders and genres before chilling out and becoming a writer. Celebrations of their creative work include a Brooklyn Nightlife Award and a Go Magazine Readers’ Choice Award; Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction nominations; workshops taught at venues such as NYU, Georgia Tech, and The University of Southern Maine; and residencies with Chez Bushwick and Earthdance. Honored to have served as a panelist for the Newfound Prose Prize and a first reader for Shortwave, Goldie has lived in six states across the Northeast and Midwest and now calls Brooklyn home.

photo © Uyphuong

Black and white photo of Goldie by Uyphuong. Goldie, a pale androgyne, looks fierce, wearing a baseball cap, square sunglasses, a necklace of dangling chains, a sequined sweatshirt and a pleather vest.

Featured Work

Extremely closeup, mystical image of glitter in purple, blue, and aqua.

Fiction

The Loveliest Review

Starting Semi-Portrait of a Thembo...

“When people called them Young Lady, they said, I’m not a young lady. I’m a fox and I’ll bite your face off. In this time and place, theyness was not really a thing, but ‘they’ is what honors the child. ‘They’ is one name that fits.”

Poetry

Red Ogre Review

type

“They drove me around, drove me mad, drove me to drill down into what it was about me, us, them, that brought us here. They had short hair and long hair, shaved and shagged and fauxhawked and free.”

Essay

HuffPost

It’s Time For Drag Kings To Detoxify Masculinity On TV

“Admirers of his chameleonic style span the entire gender spectrum. From his glimmering glitter beard to his smooth dance moves, he is magnetic and magnanimous, cool and congenial, the life of the party.”

More Writing

Press

What People Are Saying

"If you aren't reading Goldie Peacock, what're you doing with your life?"

Tim Batson

Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, MIDLVLMAG