T. Geronimo Johnson is the author of Welcome to Braggsville (HarperCollins, 2015) and Hold It ’Til It Hurts (Coffee House Press, 2012), a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MA in language, literacy, and culture from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of an Iowa Arts Fellowship and a Stegner Fellowship. Johnson has taught writing at Arizona State University; University of California, Berkeley; University of Iowa; Western Michigan University; and Stanford.