Allan Johnston

Originally from southern California, Allan Johnston earned his M.A. in Creative Writing and his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Davis.  His poems have appeared in over sixty journals, including Poetry, Poetry East, Rattle, Rhino, and Softblow.  He has published three full-length poetry collections (Tasks of Survival, 1996; In a Window, 2018; Sable and Selected Poems, 2022) and three chapbooks (Northport, 2010, Departures, 2013, and Contingencies, 2015). He has received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, Pushcart Prize nomination (2009 and 2016), and First Prize in Poetry in the Outrider Press Literary Anthology competition (2010).  His translations and co-translations of poems from the French and German have appeared in Ezra, Metamorphosis, Mayday Magazine, and Transference. He teaches writing and literature at Columbia College and DePaul University in Chicago.  He reads or has read for Word River, r.kv.r.y, and the Illinois Emerging Poets competition, and is co-editor of JPSE: Journal for the Philosophical Study of Education.  His scholarly articles have appeared in Twentieth Century Literature, College Literature, and several other journals.