Jill McCabe Johnson

Jill McCabe Johnson (she, they) grew up in the Pacific Northwest and spent her childhood digging for clams and geoducks, harvesting wild berries, and reading in poor light. Jill writes poetry and narrative nonfiction, plus occasional forays into fiction, with a deep social conscience and even deeper roots in nature and the natural sciences.

Jill is the author of three full-length poetry collections, including Tangled in Vow & Beseech, finalist in the Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award and Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Award and forthcoming from MoonPath Press, Revolutions We’d Hoped We’d Outgrown, (Finishing Line, 2017) shortlisted for the Clara Johnson Award in Women’s Literature from Jane’s Stories Press Foundation, and Diary of the One Swelling Sea (MoonPath, 2013), winner of the Nautilus Book Silver Award in Poetry. Jill is also the author of the nonfiction chapbook Borderlines (Sweet Publications, 2016) and the poetry chapbook, Pendulum (Seven Kitchens, 2017), finalist for the Rane Arroyo Award. Jill is the founder and editor-in-chief at Wandering Aengus Press and its imprint Trail to Table Press.