Bio

Alison Bergblom Johnson’s nonfiction has been in Diverse Voices Quarterly, Burly Bird, Fiction Fix, and Recovering the Self (forthcoming). Spout Press has published her fiction in 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 the club First Avenue. She has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center in creative nonfiction and at the Arts Retreat at New York Mills Regional Cultural Center on a fellowship supported by the Jerome Foundation. She’s written extensively about mental illness and her family. Alison’s currently working on a new project about Laura Ingalls Wilder and the farm crises of the 1870s and 1980s called I was Laura Ingalls Wilder (sort of).