Donna Johnson grew up in Tennessee, but now lives with her family outside of Boston. Her poems and reviews have been published in Birmingham Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn, Café Review, Green Mountains Review, Ibbetson Street, Marco Polo, Perihelion, Tulane Review, Two Rivers Review, and others. In 2010 she won Cutbank magazine’s annual poetry contest and was a finalist for the Patricia Dobler Award. In 2011 her full-length manuscript, Selvage, was chosen by Carnegie Mellon during its open reading period and will be published in February 2013. Ms. Johnson currently works in the educational software publishing field.