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T. Geronimo Johnson
Blue River Fellow (2015)
T. Geronimo Johnson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Johnson has taught writing at UC Berkeley, Stanford, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, The Prague Summer Program, San Quentin, and elsewhere. His two novels, Hold it ‘til it Hurts and Welcome to Braggsville—between the two—have been named a 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, shortlisted for the 2016 HurstonWright Legacy Award, longlisted for the National Book Award, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and awarded the Saroyan International Prize for Writing, among other accolades.