2019 Alumna
Cottage: Owl
BIO: Jill McCabe Johnson is the author of the poetry books Revolutions We'd Hoped We'd Outgrown, shortlisted for the Clara Johnson Award in Women's Literature, and Diary of the One Swelling Sea, winner of the Nautilus Book Silver Award in Poetry. Jill is also the author of the nonfiction chapbook Borderlines and the poetry chapbook, Pendulum, finalist for the Rane Arroyo Award. Jill is the founding director of the nonprofit, Artsmith, and publisher at Wandering Aengus Press. Honors include support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Hedgebrook, and Artist Trust. Jill received the Deborah Tall Memorial Fellowship from Pacific Lutheran University, where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing, and served as the Louise Van Sickle Fellow in Poetry at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln, where she earned her PhD in English. Jill teaches Creative Writing at Skagit Valley College in the San Juan Islands. She is dedicated to promoting equity among all humans and protecting the beauty and riches of our planet for future generations.