Frank Johnson is a Black poet, essayist, and visual artist born and raised in East Las Vegas. He received his MFA in 2019 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the inaugural recipient of the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute’s Donald Barlow Fellowship. Frank’s poems, essays, and reviews have been featured in a number of publications including The Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Shallow Ends, The Rumpus, and Desert Companion.