Joe Johnson writes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. His work has appeared in Flash, Heron Tree, Rust+Moth, Aethlon, and The Santa Clara Review, among others. He has won the Editor's Choice Award for Carve Magazine and was a finalist for Fiction Southeast's Ernest Hemingway Flash Fiction Prize and for the Ruby Irene Poetry Chapbook Contest. He is a graduate of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family.