Gordon Johnston | Bookhype

Gordon Johnston is author of the poetry chapbook Gravity's Light Grip (Perkolator Press) and co-author of Ocmulgee National Monument: A Brief History with Field Notes (Mercer University Press). His poetry collection Scaring the Bears is forthcoming from Mercer University Press in March, 2020. Johnston's poems, stories, and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, Southern Poetry Review, and other journals and in many anthologies. He also makes clay pages-poems written in clay and wood-fired by Roger Jamison onto stoneware pages. A former daily news reporter, Johnston teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at Mercer University.