PRIZER SMITHVILLE PRESENTS
AMANDA JOHNSTON: WE THE [ ]

Sunday, June 8th 1pm - 4pm
Reading /artist talk to begin at 2pm

Prizer Smithville
212 Main St.
Smithville, TX

Amanda Johnston is a writer, visual artist, and the 61st Texas Poet Laureate. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of two chapbooks, GUAP and Lock & Key, and the full-length collection Another Way to Say Enter. Her work has appeared in numerous online and print publications, among them Callaloo, Poetry Magazine, The Moth Radio Hour, Bill Moyers, Poetry Magazine, The Rumpus, and the anthologies Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. She has received fellowships, grants, and awards from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, Tasajillo, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Watermill Center, American Short Fiction, and the Austin International Poetry Festival. She is a former Board President of Cave Canem Foundation, a member of the Affrilachian Poets, cofounder of Black Poets Speak Out, and founder of Torch Literary Arts.