Jill McCabe Johnson is the director of Artsmith, a nonprofit to support the arts. She is the recipient of the Paula Jones Gardiner Award in Poetry, and Pushcart nominations for her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in journals such as The Los Angeles Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Brevity, and Harpur Palate. She earned her MFA from Pacific Lutheran University, and is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Nebraska.