Tenea D. Johnson

Book Excerpt: Smoketown by Tenea D. Johnson

Book Excerpt: Smoketown by Tenea D. Johnson

As part of our effort to profile more authors within the LGBT community, we present Tenea D. Johnson. Tenea was born in Kentucky and fled at the first opportunity. She took with her, the calm of the Ohio River and the swell of honesty (sometimes refreshing, sometimes catastrophic) that afflicts the folks born along its banks. Adoring of ideas, she graduated from the New College of Florida (enroll there now and thank her later) and NYU’s Gallatin School, as well as attending Clarion. Writing sustains her; music saves her. As often as possible, she straddles their borders to create compositions/fusions/hyphenated watchamacallit better heard than described.