Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is the author of My Monticello, five stories and a novella all set in Virginia, selected by National Book award winner Charles Yu as his most anticipated book for the year, and finalist for the Kirkus Prize. A fellow at TinHouse, Hedgebrook and VCCA, Johnson’s writing has appeared in Guernica, The Guardian, Kweli, Joyland, Phoebe, Shenandoah, Prime Number Magazine, and elsewhere. Her short story “Control Negro” was anthologized in Best American Short Stories 2018, guest edited by Roxane Gay, who called it, "one hell of a story" and read live by LeVar Burton as part of PRI’s Selected Shorts series. A veteran public school art teacher, Johnson lives and writes in Charlottesville, Virginia.