Nancy Johnson

NANCY JOHNSON was an accomplished broadcast journalist who left that career to write creatively. Her poetry was widely published in literary reviews. Her collection, Zoo & Cathedral, received the first White Pine Press Poetry Prize in 1995. "Writing Toward the Center," Nancy's essay about writing this memoir, was included in Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Risk, Hope, and Fear, published by Rutgers Press in 2009. Born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Nancy graduated from Randolph-Macon College and received an M.Ed. From Lehigh University, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona. She taught English and creative writing at several colleges. In 1999, Nancy moved with her husband and son from Washington, D.C., to Oakland, California, where she lived until her death at the age of sixty-three. For more about Nancy Johnson please visit http://bit.ly/1Ii81YG