Amanda Johnston
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Amanda Johnston
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The poet Amanda Johnston was born in East St. Louis, and began writing when she lived in Kentucky. She has won the 2005 Christina Sergeyevna Award from the Austin International Poetry Festival, and was a joint finalist for the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism from Split This Rock. She had recieved multiple Artist Enrichment grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and has received fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation and the Austin Project at the University of Texas. Johnston was recognized as one of Blavity’s "13 Black Poets You Should Know," and her work has been featured the Poetry Society of America’s series In Their Own Words, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series.
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Kentucky
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Amanda Johnston