Tim Johnston is a graduate of The University of Iowa, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he taught numerous writing courses. He is the author of the novel NEVER SO GREEN (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002), and the story collection IRISH GIRL & OTHER STORIES, forthcoming from the University of North Texas Press. An O. Henry Prize winner and twice shortlisted for the Best American Short Stories series, Johnston's fiction has appeared in New England Review, New Letters, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, Confrontation, Colorado Review, DoubleTake, Best Life Magazine, and other publications, including David Sedaris' anthology of favorites, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Simon & Schuster, 2005). In 2008 he was a MacDowell Fellow, his stories won first prize in the New Letters Awards for Writers, first prize in the Gival Press Short Story Award, and his story collection, IRISH GIRL, won the 2009 Katherine Anne Porter Award. He currently lives in Washington, DC, where he is the 2011-12 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellow.

For more, including author profiles in Publisher's Weekly and the L.A. Times, links to stories, and an audio interview, please visit timjohnston.net.