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Toni Ann Johnson is an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. Early life and education. Toni Ann Johnson grew up in Monroe, New York, and the Greenwich Village area of New York City. During high school she was a student at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City.
Feb 1, 2023 · Toni Ann Johnson is the author of Light Skin Gone to Waste, a short story collection nominated for the NAACP Image Awards. She also won the Flannery O'Connor Award and the Humanitas Prize for her fiction and screenwriting.
Toni Ann Johnson is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and speaker based in Los Angeles. Her most well-known works include: Ruby Bridges and Step Up 2: The Streets.
Oct 27, 2022 · Toni Ann Johnson explains how she mined her difficult childhood for the taut, wrenching short story collection 'Light Skin Gone to Waste.'
May 14, 2024 · Toni Ann Johnson won the Flannery O’Connor Award for her linked story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste (October 2022), selected for the prize and edited by Roxane Gay. The book has also been nominated for a 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work.
“Toni Ann Johnson has in Homegoing harnessed the unique power and grace of the novella. There’s not a wasted word in this cinematically told, immediately engaging story, and yet the form affords her the length to develop characters whose deeply felt humanity makes them memorable.”
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Toni Ann Johnson won the 2021 Flannery O'Connor Award for her linked short story collection LIGHT SKIN GONE TO WASTE, forthcoming from UGA Press in the fall of 2022. A novella, HOMEGOING, won Accents Publishing's inaugural novella contest in 2020 and was released in May of 2021.
