Rochelle L. Johnson

Rochelle L. Johnson’s nonfiction appears in Dawn Songs: A Birdwatcher’s Field Guide to the Poetics of Migration, The Baltimore Review, and The Revelator. The recipient of Idaho Humanities Council’s 2024 award for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities, Johnson chairs the award committee for the Thoreau Prize in Nature Writing and teaches writing and environmental studies at College of Idaho and Bread Loaf School of English. “Phantom Pains” grows out of a book in process.

Rochelle L. Johnson

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Phantom Pains [winner]

Before the amputation, the doctors warned me. My memory might recall my absent limb after the surgery, and I might experience these recollections as physical sensations. I pressed for more […]

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