Sally J. Johnson is a poet and lyric essayist. She was a 2016 Fellow at the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices and a finalist for the 2016 Black Warrior Review Contest for Nonfiction. The winner of the 2015 Poetry International Prize judged by Carol Frost, she was also a finalist for Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize in NF.