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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. She is the daughter of Bill Johnson and sister of Hillary Johnson. [ 1 ]
Johnson was raised in Monroe, New York, in an upper-middle-class family. Her father, Dr. William L. Johnson, earned his Ph.D. in psychology from Yeshiva University, as well as a post-doctoral degree in psychoanalysis.
Oct 27, 2022 · Even by a parent,” says Johnson, now in her late 50s and living in Los Angeles where she’s an award-winning screenwriter, playwright and fiction writer, along with teaching fiction and...
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.'
Nov 28, 2022 · Toni Ann Johnson and her collection Light Skin Gone to Waste, tells the story a young Black family’s arrival to the blue-collar town of Monroe, New York, in 1962. Through linked stories following the Arrington’s through the years, Johnson casts critical lens on race, class, and colorism.
Oct 15, 2022 · In Light Skin Gone to Waste, Toni Ann Johnson depicts the life of a young African American family moving to Monroe, NY, in the late 1960s. In this enthralling series of interconnected stories, Johnson not only intersects policies of race, gender, and class, but also treats each character with honesty by seamlessly shifting points of view.
Aug 16, 2015 · 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.
