Toni Ann Johnson won the 2024 Screen Door Press Prize for Fiction with her linked collection, But Where’s Home? (UPK 2026). In 2021, she won the Flannery O’Connor Award for her linked short story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste (UGA Press 2022). The collection was shortlisted for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, and also shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize. A novella, Homecoming, won Accents Publishing’s inaugural novella contest in 2020 and was released in May of 2021. Short fiction and essays have been published in The Emerson Review, Hunger Mountain, Fiction Magazine, Callaloo, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. A novel, Remedy For a Broken Angel, was published in 2014 and received a nomination for a 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. Johnson is a screenwriter with a number of produced projects to her credit including, Ruby Bridges (ABC), Crown Heights (Showtime), The Courage to Love (Lifetime) the TV pilot, Save The Last Dance (Fox Television), and the feature film, Step Up 2: The Streets (Summit Entertainment). 

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