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Emily Johnson

Emily Johnson taught high-school English for twenty years before transitioning recently (and reluctantly) to the corporate world. She earned her BA in English Education from Augustana College (llinois) and her MA in English from the University of St. Thomas. She lives and works in Saint Paul, Minnesota, contemplating what it might be like to write or cook for a living. She tends one aging rescue dog and watches far too many movies to be a true academic.

Articles by Emily Johnson

In Defense of Possessive Grief

[Your grief] is unique to you, shaped by your memories, abstracted and then made concrete in ways I am not privy to.
September 15, 2026