Author Bio
• Birth—1980
• Where—Mill Valley, California, USA
• Education—B.A., University of California-Davis; M.A., University of Southern California.
• Currently—lives in Los Angeles, California
Lindsey Lee Johnson is an American author raised in Mill Valley in California's Marin County (north of San Francisco). Her novel, The Most Dangerous Place on Earth, was published in 2016.
Education
Johnson earned her BA in English from the University of California at Davis and an MA in professional writing from the University of Southern California (USC). She has taught writing at USC, Clark College, and Portland State University. She has also served as a tutor and mentor at a private learning center where her focus has been teaching writing to teenagers.
Early career
After getting a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California at Davis, and a master of professional writing from the University of Southern California, Johnson got a teaching fellowship at USC. But when the recession hit, her teaching contract wasn't renewed, should could no longer afford her newly purchased house...and she broke up with her boyfriend.
So it was back home to Mill Valley, with tail between her legs, to live in her parents' home. She took what work she could find and ended working with students at Sage Educators, a tutoring and SAT prep firm. After four years, Johnson says she gained a real taste for what life is like today for teenagers.
Writing
“I’ve always wanted to be a novelist,” Johnson told an interviewer for the Marin County Independent Journal. When she was 24, she took her stab at writing a book. It was so bad that she “sat down and wrote another one.” It took four or five attempts before she turned out her first published novel, The Most Dangerous Place on Earth.
Johnson is now married and lives with her husband in Los Angeles, California. (Adapted from the author's website and from Marin Independent Journal.)