Lee Clay Johnson

Bio

Lee Clay Johnson is the director of the Brooklyn Writers Foundry Low-Residency MFA at St. Joseph's University, New York. Originally from Middle Tennessee, Johnson holds a B.A. from Bennington College and an MFA from the University of Virginia. He is the award-winning author of the novels Nitro Mountain (Knopf, '16), which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and Bloodline (Panamerica, '25). His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Metropolitan Review, County Highway, The Southampton Review, Ploughshares, Lit Hub, Oxford American, The Common, Appalachian Heritage, Salamander, Mississippi Review, and more.