Ph.D., University of New Hampshire (1983)

Scholarly Interests:
The prose poem; creative writing fiction and poetry; black humor; modernism and postmodernism; young adult literature

Recent Courses:
English 175: Introduction to Literature
English 380: Creative Writing Fiction
English 441:  Black Humor in Contemporary American Poetry
English 441: Young Adult Literature
English 481: Seminar on the Prose Poem

Selected Publications:
Loserville, a novel, forthcoming 2009
What Happened, novel, 2007
Eduardo & I , a book of prose poems, 2006
Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, guest editor, 2005
I'm a Man, a collection of short stories, 2003
Miracles & Mortifications, a book of prose poems, 2001
The Best of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, editor, 2000
Pretty Happy!, a book of prose poems, 1997

Awards:
2008, The Paterson Prize for What Happened
2008, Book of the Year for RI Secondary Schools for What Happened
2002, Creative Writing Fellowship from Rhode Island Council on the Arts
2001, James Laughlin Award from The Academy of American Poets
1999, Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts

Web Sites:

Personal page from The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/773

Home page from Web Del Sol
http://webdelsol.com/johnson

Interview from Double Room
http://www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room/issue_six/interview.htm

Interview from Poetry Daily and Another Chicago Magazine
http:/www.cstone.net/~poems/essajohn.htm

Young Adult Publishing
http://www.frontstreetbooks.com/coverimages/whguide.pdf

Young Adult Blogspot
http://bbzpeterjohnson.blogspot.com/