Sally J. Johnson received her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where she served as Managing Editor for the award-winning literary journal Ecotone. Her poetry and nonfiction can be found in the Collagist, Bodega, Whiskey Island, and elsewhere. Recently, she was a 2016 Fellow at the Lambda Literary Writer's Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices and a finalist for the 2016 Black Warrior Review Contest for Nonfiction. The winner of the 2015 Poetry International Prize judged by Carol Frost, she was also a finalist for Sycamore Review's Wabash Prize in Nonfiction, and winner of Madison Review's 2015 Phyllis Smart-Young Prize for Poetry.

Sally is an after-school educator in Grand Rapids, MI. Find her online @sallyjayjohnson.

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