Education
She earned her Master of Arts in 1995 from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, her Master of Fine Arts in 1997 Iowa Writers" hop, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2003 from University of California, Berkeley.
She earned her Master of Arts in 1995 from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, her Master of Fine Arts in 1997 Iowa Writers" hop, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2003 from University of California, Berkeley.
Johnson was raised in West Jordan, Utah. She teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance literature at Brigham Young University (Brigham Young University). Johnson"s academic interests include lyric poetry, John Milton, and John Donne.
Her work has appeared recently in The New Yorker, Slate, The Iowa Review, 32 Poems, and The Yale Review, and her translations from Latin and Greek have been published in literary and academic journals.
She has also published a number of scholarly articles on seventeenth-century literature. She has edited a collection of essays on Renaissance literature, and an online archive of John Donne"s complete sermons.