Drew Johnson was raised in Mississippi and lived for many years in rural New England before moving to Tallahassee. His short stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Harper’s, VQR, New England Review, and elsewhere. His long essay on the uses and abuses of history was recently published at Longreads. Other nonfiction has appeared at LARB, Guernica, and Lit Hub, among others. He received his MFA from the University of Virginia and is at work on a novel.