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Brianna Johnson

Brianna Johnson’s stories have appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, FIVE:2:ONE Magazine (online), and the Molotov Cocktail. She received a 2018 Pushcart Prize nomination for work featured in Gigantic Sequins (Issue 9.2). An MFA graduate from the University of Tampa, she lives in Orlando, Florida, where she teaches and serves as managing editor of Burrow Press online journal Fantastic Floridas.

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May/June 2020

Black-Woman

By Brianna Johnson

I Black-Woman was born in the back of her father’s baby-blue ’49 Ford pickup. Her mother lay in the rusted flatbed, her feet pressed into the sides, toes curled in […]

Brianna Johnson

Brianna Johnson’s stories have appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, FIVE:2:ONE Magazine (online), and the Molotov Cocktail. She received a 2018 Pushcart Prize nomination for work featured in Gigantic Sequins (Issue 9.2). […]