Dana Johnson
American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction explores Black working-class life in Los Angeles with lyrical precision. Elsewhere, California is her most celebrated novel. She is an important voice in contemporary African American urban fiction.
Works
- Elsewhere, CaliforniaNovel about identity and belonging for Black woman raised by white adoptive parents
- Break Any Woman DownCollection exploring desire, race, and identity among contemporary Black women
- In the Not Quite DarkComing-of-age story of Black girl navigating adolescence, identity, and belonging