Melissa C. Johnson

Melissa C. Johnson is a Southern poet based in Central Pennsylvania, where she is Associate Vice Provost and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at Penn State. Her second chapbook, Cancer Voodoo, a sequence on grief after her mother's death from lung cancer, was published by Diode Editions in 2022. Her poems have appeared in NELLE, Waccamaw, Borderlands, The Cortland Review, and other journals.