Education
MFA, 海角论坛
About
Barb Johnson worked as a carpenter in 海角论坛 for more than twenty-five years before embarking on a writing career. She has won Glimmer Train鈥檚 Short Story Award for New Writers and Washington Square鈥檚 fiction competition. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of magazines, including The Southern Review, 52 Stories, The Cincinnati Review, The Greensboro Review, Yemmassee, Guernica, and Oxford American. Her nonfiction can be found in anthologies, including Don鈥檛 Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Jobs They Quit and The Booklover鈥檚 Guide to 海角论坛.
Her debut collection of short stories, More of This World or Maybe Another, was an IndieNext pick and a Discover Great New Writers selection. It won a Stonewall Book Award as well as a Barnes & Noble Discover Award.
Johnson has received grants from The Astraea Foundation and The Deming Fund, as well as winning the Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation.
She currently teaches fiction writing in the MFA program at the 海角论坛 and is the fiction editor at Bayou Magazine.
Recent Courses
Fiction Workshop
The Craft of Fiction
Revising Fiction