Sunday, September 18, 2022 - Jacqueline Johnson

Jacqueline Johnson is a multi-disciplined artist creating in both poetry, fiction writing and fiber arts. She is the author of A Woman's Season, a finalist on Main Street Rag and A Gathering of Mother Tongues, published by White Pine Press and is the winner of the Third Annual White Pine Press Poetry Award.

Her work has appeared in: About Place Journal, Revising the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era, Routledge 2020, The Slow Down, American Public Media, October 16, 2019, and Pank: Health and Healing Folio, 2019. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Black Earth Institute Fellow Emeritus. She is an editor at Taint Taint Taint Magazine. Forthcoming: Appreciating Tender Buttons: An Invitation to Play, Word Works 2022, Blue Door Art Center: Coffee Table Issue, 2022.

Ms. Johnson has been awarded residencies at MacDowell Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Arts Colony, Hurston Wright, and Brooklyn Public Library Artist Residency. She has also received awards from NYFA Artists Corps and the Mid-Atlantic Writers Association, Creative Writing Award in Poetry, Morgan State University.

Ms. Johnson has taught poetry at Pine Manor College, City University of New York, Poets House, Very Special Arts, Imani House, the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, and African Voices.

Works in progress include: a novel The Privilege of Memory and How to Stop a Hurricane, a collection of short stories. She is a graduate of New York University and the City University of New York. A native of Philadelphia, PA., she resides in Brooklyn, New York.

The event is free but you must register in advance. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

(donations gratefully accepted!)