Education
MFA, University of New Orleans
About
Barb Johnson worked as a carpenter in New Orleans for more than twenty years before embarking on a career in writing. She won Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers and Washington Square’s fiction competition. Her fiction has also appeared in such magazines as 52 Stories, Guernica, and Oxford American. Her nonfiction can be found in a number of anthologies, including Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Jobs They Quit and The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans.
Her debut collection of short stories, More of This World or Maybe Another, was an IndieNext pick, a Discover Great New Writers selection, and earned a prize at the Barnes & Noble Discover Awards. The book also won the American Library Association’s Barbara Gittings Stonewall Book Award.
Johnson has received grants from The Astraea Foundation and The Deming Fund, as well as a two-year grant from A Room of Her Own Foundation.
She currently teaches fiction writing in the MFA program at the University of New Orleans and is the Editor in Chief at Bayou Magazine.
Recent Courses
Fiction Workshop
The Craft of Fiction
Revising Fiction
Bayou Magazine Production & Promotion