“Reading The Color of Truth, I felt as though I’d had a long conversation with a good friend, one who loves creatures and growing things, thinks deeply about the big questions in life, and observes … Read More

“One asks of a poet whether she or he can look into the mirror of selfhood and see a world that intimates the breadth and depth of what we grandly call “existence.” Laura Johnson does that in poem after poem and leaves the reader … Read More

About Laura Anella Johnson


Laura Johnson’s work has appeared in a range of literary journals including Blue Heron Review, Literary Mama, Time of Singing, The New Southern Fugitive, Peeking Cat Poetry, Snakeskin, The Reach of Song 2018, and LUPO. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University and lives with her husband and pets in Georgia where she teaches high school English/ESOL

Like cat poems? Mel Wardle Woodend, Poet Laureate of Staffordshire, England, has put together an anthology of cat poems in support of Cats Protection Stafford and District. Laura’s contributions to this anthology are on pages 62 and 123. Get your copy today on Amazon!