About me
Genie Johnson is a poet and writer currently enrolled as a student at Quinebaug Valley Community College in Danielson, CT. Her poetry has been published in The Chronicle, and she won First Place in the Annual Julius Sokenu Poetry Awards in 2019, as well as Second Place in 2018. Genie was also selected as a 2018-19 Connecticut Student Poet by the Connecticut Poetry Circuit where she represented her school (along with 4 other students from UConn, Yale, Trinity, and Albertus Magnus) on a reading tour of college campuses throughout the state of Connecticut in the Spring semester of 2019. Genie Johnson resides in Woodstock, Connecticut with her husband Mike and their pug, Bailey.