Kristie Robin Johnson

Kristie Robin Johnson is an educator, essayist, and poet from Augusta, GA. A graduate of the MFA Creative Writing program at Georgia College and State University, Kristie's writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, AWP honors, and has received other awards and recognition, and has been published in numerous literary magazines, journals, and anthologies. Most recently, her work received the First Prize for Nonfiction in the 2020 Porter Fleming Literary Competition. Kristie also completed a series of poems in 2019 titled "The Golden Blocks" as a part of a Greater Augusta Arts Council and NEA funded grant project with the Lucy C. Laney Museum of Black History in Augusta. Her first book, High Cotton, will be released in 2020 by Raised Voice Press.