Alison Bergblom Johnson’s nonfiction has been in Diverse Voices Quarterly, Burly Bird and Fiction Fix. Spout Press has published her fiction in Blink, an anthology of short shorts. The Minneapolis Star Tribune described that anthology as “some of Minnesota’s best writers at their briefest.” She’s read her work in some pretty cool places such as the Walker Art Center and 7th Street Entry of First Avenue. She’s currently working on a new project about Laura Ingalls Wilder and the farm crises of the 1870s and 1980s.

She’s taking a break from Alison Failure to work on I was Laura Ingalls Wilder (sort of). Rest assured she will return to it.

What I’m Up To

Memoir

The CNF issue of Fiction Fix is out. Here’s Dinty W. Moore’s review. My piece She Can Have This Calf appears in this issue. It’s available as a free download so be sure to grab a copy.

Another piece of creative nonfiction called Funny Girl in the ER has been published by Diverse Voices Quarterly. Here’s the pdf to issue 8.

Performance

My one-woman show Other Than Tragedy premiered August of 2010 at the Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Teaching

In the Face of Obstacles appears in Recovering the Self in the July 2011 issue. This piece is a meditation on Martha Graham’s This I Believe piece.

For more info on the online class Writing Mental Illness, please visit my course page.

Please note however that Writing Mental Illness is on hiatus. I’m focusing on my own writing in 2011. The class should be back in 2012.

I also teach at the White Bear Center for the Arts.