Beth Golay
Director of Marketing and Digital Content | Marginalia Podcast Host | Books & Whatnot Podcast Co-host | Wichita's Early Edition Host & ProducerBeth Golay oversees KMUW's marketing strategies, website, online streaming, and app. She is also the host of the Marginalia podcast, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, and creator of KMUW's daily news podcast Wichita's Early Edition.
Beth is also the driving force behind You're Spelling It Wrong—KMUW's spelling bee for grown-ups that has proven to be quite popular.
Since Marginalia launched in 2016, Beth has interviewed hundreds of authors for Marginalia, including Pulitzer Prize–winners and Nobel Laureates. Dozens of those interviews have been featured in the NPR "Books We Love" app. Beth has been involved with KMUW's Literary Feast since its inception in August 2005. In her free time, she likes to read and play trivia with her team NPRmageddon. Beth is currently working toward a Master's Degree in English from Wichita State University.
She has been honored with a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in social media, recognized for her work on the station's website and as host and producer of Wichita's Early Edition, Sept. 21, 2023 from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. She was also honored as a team member of the NPR StoryLab Workshop podcast My Fellow Kansans.
Beth can be reached by email at golay@kmuw.org.
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This week on Marginalia, Beth Golay speaks with Sue Roe about her new book, Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso’s Life, and Suzanne Perez reviews The Merge by Grace Walker. -
American agriculture depends on foreign workers. President Trump’s immigration clampdown is shrinking a farm workforce that was already too small, and farm groups are sounding the alarm. Some in the ag industry say now is the time to revise a visa program to allow many more foreign workers into the country. That story is coming up, and we have news from Wichita and around the state. -
This week on Marginalia, Beth Golay speaks with Quiara Alegria Hudes about her new novel, The White Hot, Suzanne Perez reviews The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, and Holland Saltsman from The Novel Neighbor in St. Louis, Missouri, joins us with some book recommendations. -
Bonnie Bing's book — "Wait... Now What?" — is a collection of some of the columns she wrote for The Wichita Eagle over the years. -
Musician Joe Walsh was 20 months old when his father died in 1949 while flying a Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star, America's first operational jet fighter. Walsh has founded an organization called VetsAid that helps military veterans and families, including ones such as his own where a member has been lost in the line of duty, known as Gold Star families. And we have news from Wichita and around the state.
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Voters in Johnson County, could face major changes in how they are represented. Although Kansas’ Republican House leader dropped efforts to force a redraw of U.S. House districts last night, some Republican leaders want to divide the state’s largest county into different congressional districts. But some Republicans *living* in Johnson County say they want to keep the county whole. We look at what political representation means in practice, plus election and other news from Wichita and around the state.
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This week on Marginalia, Beth Golay speaks with Nicholas Thompson about his new book, The Running Ground, and Suzanne Perez reviews Wreck by Catherine Newman. -
On the latest Marginalia, author Gish Jen describes how she blended fiction with nonfiction in her story of her mother’s life. -
Beth Golay speaks with three-term United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo about her new collection of essays, "Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age." -
The grape harvest for wine is in full swing. But in some regions, the last few years have been tough. What’s driving a drop in demand, and why are some parts of the Heartland faring better than others? We have that story, plus news from Wichita and around the state.
