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Jeffrey N. Johnson's story collection, OTHER FINE GIFTS, won the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal for regional fiction: Mid-Atlantic (Ippy Award). His first novel, THE HUNGER ARTIST, was a finalist for the Library of Virginia's People's Choice Award for fiction, and he was awarded the Andrew Lytle Fiction Prize by The Sewanee Review. His fiction and poetry have appeared in The Sewanee Review, The Connecticut Review, South Carolina Review, Santa Clara Review, Midwest Quarterly, Lake Effect, Real: Regarding Arts and Letters, Red Rock Review, Evansville Review, Potomac Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Carolina Quarterly, Dos Passos Review, Roanoke Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Steel Toe Review, Oxford Magazine, Night Train, ...more

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Jeffrey N. Johnson I'm typically reading multiple books at once. If I'm struggling with my own fiction, I'll flip over to reading biography or poetry or whatever's sitti…moreI'm typically reading multiple books at once. If I'm struggling with my own fiction, I'll flip over to reading biography or poetry or whatever's sitting on my nightstand. Those worrisome down-times can actually be made refreshing. The spark always comes back.(less)
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The Hunger Artist

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Other Fine Gifts, Stories

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OTHER FINE GIFTS wins an Ippy

OTHER FINE GIFTS has won a Silver Medal Ippy Award for Best Regional Fiction: Mid-Atlantic.
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