​Meg Johnson is the author of the full length poetry collection Inappropriate Sleepover (The National Poetry Review Press, 2014). Her second book, The Crimes of Clara Turlington, won the 2015 Vignette Collection Award and was recently published by Vine Leaves Press. Both books were NewPages Editor's Picks. Inappropriate Sleepover was the runner-up for the Rousseau Prize for Literature. Meg's poems have appeared in Hobart, Nashville Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Puritan, Sugar House Review, Verse Daily, and others. Her nonfiction has appeared in BUST, Ms. Magazine, The Good Men Project, and others. Meg started dancing at a young age and worked professionally in the performing arts for many years. She received her MFA in creative writing from the NEOMFA Program. She is the editor of  Dressing Room Poetry Journal and has taught writing at Iowa State University and University of Akron. She has taught classes as a guest teacher at Malone University and Columbus State. Meg was the guest judge for the 2016 Vignette Collection Award for Vine Leaves Press and a judge for Poetry Out Loud (2015 State Finals, Iowa). She has given readings at various colleges and for various reading series. Meg will be the writer-in-residence at the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts the month of August 2019. She blogs at megjohnsonmegjohnson.blogspot.com.