Ginger Johnson

Ginger Johnson earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in English, and a MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has taught writing in colleges and universities across the country, and made presentations in schools and conferences coast to coast as well as internationally. Ginger published two middle-grade novels with Bloomsbury: The Splintered Light, and The Other Side of Luck. She has been the recipient of the Marion Dane Bauer Prize, and was honored to receive one of the inaugural Mosaic Lowell Mini-Grants. Formerly a teaching artist for Arts in Education, she trained teachers and visited elementary schools in western New York to bring the arts in an interdisciplinary manner to students. She created and implemented a summer literacy program (including aspects of both written and spoken literacies for children participating in the Youth in Arts summer camp at the Madame Walker Theater Center in Indianapolis. She is the founder of the genesis retreat, a yearly writing and creativity retreat held at The Queen’s College in Oxford, England. Additionally, she is a mixed-media artist, having exhibited artwork at the Mini Art Gallery show on the Riverwalk, at City Hall, and in the Arts League of Lowell gallery.