T Geronimo Johnson

Born and raised in the American South, T. Geronimo Johnson is the bestselling author of Welcome to Braggsville, longlisted for the National Book Award and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence; and Hold It 'Til It Hurts, a finalist fo the PEN/Faulkner Award. He won the inaugural Joyce Carol Oates Award, the Rome Prize, Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and the William Saroyan International Prize, received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he later taught writing, and has held Stegner and Iowa Arts fellowships.