Julia Johnson

Julia Johnson is a poet born in New Orleans in 1971. Her first book, Naming the Afternoon, won the George Garrett New Writing Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She has published The Falling Horse with Factory Hollow Press and Subsidence with Groundhog Poetry Press. Her poems have appeared in journals including The Greensboro Review and Poetry International. Johnson teaches creative writing and English at the University of Kentucky, where she founded the MFA program in creative writing. She has also served as guest poetry editor for The Louisville Review.