I'm happy to announce that my first book, Bone Map, will be published through the National Poetry Series:
The National Poetry Series is pleased to announce the results of the 2013 Open Competition. The winning books are scheduled for publication in the summer of 2014.
Ampersand Revisited, by Simeon Berry of Somerville, MA
Chosen by Ariana Reines, to be published by Fence Books
Trespass, by Thomas Dooley of New York, NY
Chosen by Charlie Smith, to be published by HarperCollins Publishers
Bone Map, by Sara Eliza Johnson of Salt Lake City, UT
Chosen by Martha Collins, to be published by Milkweed Editions
Its Day Being Gone, by Rose McLarney of Tulsa, OK
Chosen by Robert Wrigley, to be published by Penguin Books
What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other, by Jeffrey Schultz of Los Angeles, CA
Chosen by Kevin Young, to be published by University of Georgia Press
(http://nationalpoetryseries.blogspot.com/)
About Me
- Sara Eliza Johnson
- Sara Eliza Johnson’s first book, Bone Map (Milkweed Editions, 2014), wasselected for the 2013 National Poetry Series. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, Blackbird, Boston Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2015 NEA Fellowship in poetry, a 2010 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and two Winter Fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, among other honors. She currently teaches at the University of Alaska—Fairbanks.