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About Roman Johnson

Roman Johnson, PhD is a writer and scientist from Memphis, TN. He is a first–year MFA student in poetry at Brown University and the winner of the Clark Atlanta Poetry Prize and the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize from Backbone Press. He is the current Radical Reversal Poet in Residence with the Suffolk County House of Connections. He has received numerous other fellowships and residencies from institutions like Harvard, Brown, Lambda Literary, Obsidian United Foundation, United Kingdom, Linda Hall Library, Breadloaf, Tin House, and Knoll Farm. His writing can be found in anthologies and journals such Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Frontiers in Oncology, Obsidian, African Voices, and elsewhere.