Dedra Johnson

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Location New Orleans
Introduction I write and live in post-levee-breach New Orleans. I also teach creative writing (fiction, playwriting, screenwriting). I've been on the radio twice.
Favorite Books Caucasia, Erasure, Glyph, The Fall of Rome, Shake Hands with the Devil, The Chaneysville Incident, Mail Order Bride, Persepolis, Embroideries, The End of Faith, Now and on Earth, Jakob von Gunten, Invisible Man, Subtractiion, Why Did I Ever, Kindred, Seize the Day, The Fisher King, Property, Pierre et Jean, The Black Notebooks, After the Dance, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, Stiffed, Jesus' Son, The Name of the World, Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, Persepolis 2, Maus, Maus II, Sleepwalk and Other Stories, Summer Blonde, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, The Push Man and Other Stories, Defying Hitler, When She Was White, People Who Led to My Plays, Darkness Visible, Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood, Experience, The Camera My Mother Gave Me, Family, On Writing for Children and Other People, Song of Solomon, Kassandra and the Wolf, Purple Hibiscus, Violence