L. A. Johnson

L. A. Johnson is the author of Nobody Brings Flowers, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2027, and an associate editor of Larry Levis’s Swirl & Vortex: Collected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2026). The winner of the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize and the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry, her poems appear in the Atlantic, Poetry, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD from the University of Southern California and is currently a Hughes Fellow in Poetry at Southern Methodist University. (Updated 10/2026)