Tatiana Johnson-Boria (she/her) is a writer, artist, and educator. Her writing explores identity, trauma (especially inherited trauma), and what it means to heal. Her work has been selected as a finalist for the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest (2020), the Solstice Literary Magazine Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize (2020), and others. She is a 2021 MacDowell Fellowship recipient and a recipient of the 2021 Brother Thomas Fellowship. She’s received honorable mention for the 2021 and 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize nominee.