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Toni Ann Johnson

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in Goshen, NY, The United States

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Toni Ann Johnson won the 2024 Screen Door Press Prize for Fiction with her linked collection, BUT WHERE'S HOME? (UPK 2026)

In 2021, she won the Flannery O'Connor Award for her linked short story collection LIGHT SKIN GONE TO WASTE(UGA Press 2022). The collection was shortlisted for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, and also shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize.

A novella, HOMEGOING, won Accents Publishing's inaugural novella contest in 2020 and was released in May of 2021.

Short fiction and essays have been published in The Emerson Review, Hunger Mountain, Fiction Magazine, Callaloo, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.

A novel, Remedy For a Broken Angel, was published in 2014 and received a nomination for a 2015 NAACP Image Aw ...more

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	Light Skin Gone to Waste 4.46 avg rating — 194 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remedy for a Broken Angel 4.52 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	But Where's Home?: A Novella and Stories 4.47 avg rating — 47 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homegoing 4.39 avg rating — 46 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vibrating Youth: On a budget! Affordable things to do in your 20s, 30, and 40s to look fabulous in your 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond. 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vibrant And Clear: How To Be Acne Free, Naturally! 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ruby Bridges Story (The Wonderful World of Disney Series) by Hallie Marshall, Toni Ann Johnson (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Accolades: A Women Who Submit Anthology by Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera (Managing Editor), Rachael Warecki (Managing Editor), Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo (Genre Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Dispossessed

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Toni Johnson said: " This is a beautifully written important work that covers events in American history that aren't widely known but should be, given what has happened politically in 2024 and the consequences to immigrant communities. ...more "

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The Writer's Lexicon: Descriptions, Overused Words, and Taboos

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Heal Your Mind and Your Body Will Heal, Book 1

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“Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.”
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“How to Write a Poem

Catch the air
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“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
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“It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself”
― James Baldwin

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“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”
― James Baldwin

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