Amaud Jamaul Johnson’s debut collection, Red Summer, won the 2004 Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press and will be published by Tupelo in spring 2006. Johnson was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford and a Cave Canem Fellow and is currently an assistant professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Also In VQR

• The Maple Remains
• Chicago Citizen Testifies in His Defense
• Elaine, 1919