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Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Amaud Jamaul Johnson
A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, Amaud Jamaul Johnson is a winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Dorset Prize, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and Cave Canem. Born and raised in Compton, California, he is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing.


“Somebody told me we got LA”

From Amaud Jamaul Johnson's Imperial Liquor
October 9, 2020  By Amaud Jamaul Johnson
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The Fault Lines of Midwestern
Racism Run Deep

Amaud Jamaul Johnson's Letter to Wisconsin
September 22, 2020  By Amaud Jamaul Johnson
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