Remember Me Like This (Johnston) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1974
• Where—N/A
• Education—B.A., Texas A&M University; M.A., Miami University;
   M.F.A., Iowa Writers' Workshop
• Awards—Pushcart Prize (more below)
• Currently—lives somewhere in the Northeast...don't they all?


Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of the 2014 novel, Remember Me Like This, and the award-winning Corpus Christi: Stories, which was named a best book of the year by the Independent (London) and Irish Times.

He is the editor of Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer and also teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars, as well as at Harvard University, where he is the director of creative writing.

Johnston' work has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Paris Review, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. His nonfiction has appeared in New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Tin House, Best American Sports Writing, and on NPR’s All Things Considered.

His awards include the Pushcart Prize, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, the Stephen Turner Award, the Cohen Prize, and the Kay Cattarulla Prize for short fiction. He is the recipient of both a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and a James Michener Fellowship. And he received the "5 Under 35" honor from the National Book Foundation. (Adapted from the publisher and the author's website.)