English : Part-Time Faculty
Office: on N/A
Phone: (360) xxx.xxxx
Email: Jill.Johnson@skagit.edu
Jill teaches English Composition and Creative Writing at Skagit Valley College in the San Juan Islands. She is the author of the poetry books Revolutions We'd Hoped We'd Outgrown, (Finishing Line, 2017) shortlisted for the Clara Johnson Award in Women's Literature from Jane's Stories Press Foundation, and Diary of the One Swelling Sea (MoonPath, 2013), winner of the Nautilus Books Silver Award in Poetry. Jill is also the author of the nonfiction chapbook Borderlines (Sweet Publications, 2016) and the poetry chapbook, Pendulum (Seven Kitchens, 2017), 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, an American Academy of Poets Award, the Deborah Tall Memorial Fellowship from Pacific Lutheran University, where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing, and serving as the Louise Van Sickle Fellow in Poetry at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln, where she earned her PhD in English. She is dedicated to promoting equity among all humans and protecting the beauty and riches of our planet for future generations. Plus eating good food. These endeavors are not mutually exclusive. http://jillmccabejohnson.com/index.html