Jeff T. Johnson’s poetry is forthcoming or has
appeared in Boston Review, 1913 a journal of forms,
dandelion magazine, Slope, VOLT, and
Forklift, Ohio, among other publications. Critical essays
have appeared in Sink Review,The Rumpus,
Coldfront, The Aviary, Poetry Project
Newsletter, and elsewhere. With Claire Donato, he collaborates
on SPECIAL AMERICA, a digitally mediated theoretical performance.
He lives in Brooklyn, is Editor in Chief at LIT, and edits
Dewclaw. He was a founding editor of Kitchen Sink
magazine.
He received his BA from UC Berkeley and his MFA from The New
School, where he teaches part-time in the Graduate Writing
Program.
He has completed three full-length poetry manuscripts, has been
a finalist for the Iowa Review Award in poetry, and received
Honorable Mention for Coconut Books’ Joanna Cargill prize. He is at
work on a book of musicological poetics called Trouble
Songs, and an ongoing visual poem composed in architectural
modeling space called LETTERS FROM THE ARCHIVERSE. For
more information, visit jefftjohnson.wordpress.com