Discipline: Literature – poetry

Roxane Beth Johnson

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: San Francisco, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010, 2012

Roxane Beth Johnson is a Cave Canem poet, and the author of Black Crow Dress (Alice James Books) and Jubilee (Anhinga). Her poems have appeared in, or are forthcoming from, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Harvard Review, The Georgia Review, Image Journal, and elsewhere. She is at work on her third book of poems and works full-time as a copywriter in San Francisco.

Portrait by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Studios

Heyward

Roxane Beth 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…

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