Beth Golay
Director of Marketing and Digital ContentBeth Golay serves as KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, and NPR StoryLab Workshop team member on the award-winning podcast My Fellow Kansans. Beth also produces several KMUW commentaries, for which she received honorable mention from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters in 2018 for Cooking With Fire and again in 2019 for An Artist’s Perspective. Beth has been honored with a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in social media, and recognized for her work on the station's website, KMUW.org.
Since Marginalia was launched in 2016, Beth has interviewed hundreds of authors, and dozens of those interviews have been featured in the NPR "Books We Love" app. Beth says she accomplishes most of her reading on the bus—she’s a Route 21 gal—and it was her experience as a bus commuter that inspired Beth to produce the En Route segment for KMUW’s weekly news program The Range. In 2020, Beth was honored with first place in the Editorial/Commentary category from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters for her interview with Sylvia and Sam on Route 21.
Beth can be reached by email at golay@kmuw.org.
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Beth Golay recently spoke with Gina Chung about the themes in "Green Frog," her writing style, and how her characters continue to live on beyond the story. -
Farms across the Midwest use biosolids—a type of byproduct from wastewater treatment plants—to fertilize their land. But toxic forever chemicals called PFAS could be contaminating that fertilizer… along with millions of acres of farmland. How a few Midwestern states are testing for PFAS… while many are not. Plus news from Wichita and around the state. -
KMUW film savants Fletcher Powell and Hugo Phan discuss what to expect at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Plus, composer Tim Hinck's Symphony No. 1 will receive its world premiere this Saturday with a performance from the Wichita Symphony Orchestra. We'll have both of those features and news from Wichita and around the state.
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Power outages in Kansas caused by severe storms are frustrating some homeowners. Overhead power lines appear to be the vulnerability leading to the blackouts. Some Kansas homeowners want power company Evergy to bury the lines to provide more reliable service. We’ll hear why burying established power lines is not that easy, and would immediately raise the price on everyone’s electricity bills. Plus news from Wichita and around the state.
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Beth Golay visits with musician and author, Scott Guild, about his debut novel. -
Scott Guild's debut novel, Plastic, is set in an alternate world about 50 years in the future. But with climate change, gun violence, and nuclear fallout, this dystopian comedy looks eerily similar to *our* world. Beth Golay speaks with Guild about his novel. Plus we have news from Wichita and around the state.
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The Wichita School Board will vote tonight on whether to approve a plan that would close six schools. KMUW's News Director Tom Shine and education reporter Suzanne Perez talk about the reasons behind the plan. Plus news from Wichita and around the state.
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Brian Turner is the visiting author at Wichita State University. He will give a book reading for "My Life as a Foreign Country" on February 29 at 5:30 pm at the Ulrich Museum of Art at WSU. -
Author Brian Turner is wrapping up his stint as visiting author at Wichita State University with a reading tonight of his book, "My Life as a Foreign Country," a memoir about war. We'll share part of my conversation with Brian Turner, plus news from Wichita and around the state.
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Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is again pushing lawmakers to expand the health care program Medicaid. But Republican leaders are staunchly opposed, including House Speaker Dan Hawkins. More on the political fight over Medicaid expansion and what it means for low-income Kansans. Plus news from Wichita and around the state.
