Juleen Eun Sun Johnson

Juleen Eun Sun Johnson is an interdisciplinary BIPOC writer and artist. Johnson was born in Seoul, South Korea. She was adopted and taken to Valdez, Alaska at the age of three. Johnson is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Fellowship. She was awarded the Cannon Beach Art Association Grant for writing and art. Johnson earned an MFA in Visual Studies from PNCA and an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Johnson’s work has been published in The Rio Grande Review, Whiskey Island Magazine, Poetry Northwest and other journals and anthologies. Her poem won the Zone 3 Press Prize for Poetry. Johnson’s poems have been nominated for the Best of Net. She is the founder and editor of Trestle Ties: A Landscape of Emergence.