Nicholas Johnson

Nicholas Johnson is a New York poet and co-founder and senior poetry editor of the online literary magazine Big City Lit. He has taught creative writing for many years at the Payne Whitney Clinic and The Lighthouse in New York City. His chapbook Degrees of Freedom (Bright Hill Press, 2005) was praised by Molly Peacock and Dennis Nurkse. He holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and won the Lyric Recovery Festival Award at Carnegie Hall in 2000.