Chelsey Johnson

Chelsey Johnson writes fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays, including the novel Stray City (Custom House/HarperCollins, 2018). Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, Gulf Coast, The New York Times, Elle, Out, and NPR's Selected Shorts, among others. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford, as well as fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Signal Fire Arts, and the Crested Butte Center for the Arts’ Mountain Words Writer in Residence. She has been a professor of creative writing at Oberlin College, William & Mary, and Northern Arizona University. Born and raised in the north woods of Minnesota, she now lives and works in the mountain Southwest.