Gordon Johnston
Gordon Johnston is author of the award-winning poetry collection SCARING THE BEARS and of the poetry chapbooks DURABLE GOODS and GRAVITY'S LIGHT GRIP, and is coauthor, with Matthew Jennings, of OCMULGEE NATIONAL MONUMENT: A BRIEF GUIDE WITH FIELD NOTES. A former journalist with work in The Georgia Review, Southern Poetry Review, Susurrus, and other journals, Johnston is professor of English at Mercer University. This fiction collection, his first, draws on fourteen years of canoeing Southern rivers.