Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is the author of My Monticello, a debut of five stories and a novella all set in Virginia, exploring American Identity, belonging and freedom, forthcoming from Henry Holt in October, 2021. Johnson has been a fellow at TinHouse, Hedgebrook, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; her writing appears in Guernica, The Guardian, Phoebe, Prime Number Magazine, and elsewhere. Her short story “Control Negro” was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2018, guest edited by Roxane Gay, who called it, “one hell of a story,” and was read live by LeVar Burton as part of PRI’s Selected Shorts series. A veteran public school art teacher, Johnson lives and writes in Charlottesville, Virginia.