Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the author of two books of poetry, Darktown Follies and Red Summer. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, his honors include a Pushcart Prize, The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and The Dorset Prize, as well as support from The MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, and Cave Canem. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.