Born and raised in the American South, T. Geronimo Johnson is the bestselling author of Welcome to Braggsville, longlisted for the National Book Award and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence; and Hold It ’Til It Hurts, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the William Saroyan International Prize, received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he taught writing, and has held Stegner and Iowa Arts fellowships.
