Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the author of three collections, Red Summer (Tupelo Press, 2006), Darktown Follies (2013), and Imperial Liquor (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, his honors include: the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Dorset Prize, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Cave Canem. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Callaloo, The Rumpus, Best American Poetry, Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Compton, CA, he is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Amaud Johnson
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Madison, WI
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017
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Studios
Heyward
Amaud Johnson worked in the Heyward studio.
The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…