Jenny Johnson

Jenny Johnson is an American queer poet. Early life and education Johnson was born and raised in Winchester, Virginia and began writing poetry as a teenager. She received a BA/MT in English Education from the University of Virginia and an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College. She taught in public schools in San Francisco before beginning to teach at the college level, and spent ten summers working as staff at the UVA Young Writer’s Workshop. She taught at the University of Pittsburgh and currently teaches at West Virginia University where she is an assistant professor of Creative Writing, and at Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writing Workshop. She lives in Pittsburgh. Poetry Johnson’s poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, and New England Review. Her poems have been selected for the collections The Best American Poetry 2012 Bodies Built for Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism (OR Books, 2018) and Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poetics (Nightboat Books 2015).