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Nationality
  
American


Name
  
Dana Johnson

Dana Johnson About DANA JOHNSON

Alma mater
  
University of Southern California;Indiana University

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Dana Johnson (born 1967) is an American writer and Associate Professor at the University of Southern California. Honors include the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and being named a nominee for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her writing has appeared in Callaloo, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere.

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Life

She was born and raised in and around Los Angeles, California. She was first published in the American Literary Review (University of North Texas) and the Missouri Review (University of Missouri).

Honors

  • Nominee, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2013; for Elsewhere, California)
  • Finalist, Patterson Fiction Prize (2002)
  • Nominee, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2002; for Break Any Woman Down)
  • Special Mention, Pushcart Prize (2002; for short story "Melvin in the Sixth Grade")
  • Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction (2001; for Break Any Woman Down)

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