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Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s writing has appeared in Guernica, The Guardian, Phoebe, Prime Number Magazine, and elsewhere. Her short story “Control Negro” was anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2018, guest edited by Roxane Gay, and read live by LeVar Burton as part of PRI’s Selected Shorts series. Johnson has been a fellow at Hedgebrook, Tin House Summer Workshops, and VCCA. A veteran public school art teacher, Johnson lives and writes in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Collections

My Monticello (2021)

Books containing stories by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

The Best American Short Stories 2018 (2018)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Roxane Gay

Award nominations

	2021 Kirkus Prize for Fiction (finalist) : My Monticello
	2021 John Leonard Prize for Best First Book (nominee) : My Monticello
	2021 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (nominee) : My Monticello

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson recommends

Dead in Long Beach, California (2024)
Venita Blackburn
"Wry, subversive, and gorgeously inventive. In Dead in Long Beach, California, Venita Blackburn explores disorientation, deception, and the impulse toward connection in the aftermath of grief."

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