Devin Johnston

Devin Johnston was born in Canton, New York, in 1970 and grew up in North Carolina. He received a BA from Oberlin College and an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago.

Johnston is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Bright Thorn: Poems, 2000–2026 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Dragons (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Far-Fetched (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015); Traveler: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013); and Sources (Turtle Point Press, 2008), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of two books of prose, including Creaturely and Other Essays (Turtle Point Press, 2009)

A cofounder of Flood Editions, Johnston is the Eugene A. Hotfelder Professor in the Humanities at Saint Louis University in Missouri and lives in Missouri.