Bret Anthony Johnston

Biography

Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of the internationally best-selling novel Remember Me Like This (Random House, 2014), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is also the author of the short-story collection Corpus Christi (Random House, 2004) and the editor of Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. He is the Director of the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas.

http://bretanthonyjohnston.com/

See Work

#VQRTRUESTORY / Summer 2017

Dropping In

By Bret Anthony Johnston ,  Photography by Bill Driver

From the early ’60s to the late ’70s, the Desert Gardens Ranch nudist colony was secreted away in the foothills of the San Jacinto Mountains. This is Desert Hot Springs, California, two-ish hours east of Los Angeles. The story goes that the...
FICTION / Summer 2016

Dixon

By Bret Anthony Johnston ,  Illustration by Corey Brickley

A star-smeared night, the usual briny and humid haze of the brush country in August, and Dixon was hauling twenty cases of stolen toys up from the Rio Grande valley. If the border patrol at the Sarita checkpoint asked, he’d claim a delivery...
FICTION / Fall 2013

To a Good Home

By Bret Anthony Johnston

Read the co-winner of our 2013 Emily Clark Balch Prize for fiction, as well as a finalist for the Kay Cattarulla Award for Short Story.