Menu

AWP provides community, opportunities, ideas, news, and advocacy for writers and teachers of writing.

Previous Writer to Writer Mentees

Jarika Johnson

Jarika Johnson

Fall 2018 Session

Jarika Johnson graduated from Louisiana State University with a BA in English-Creative Writing. She works in management, writes during her free time, and directs a short film once every blue moon. Two of her greatest passions are reading and traveling. And tea. Math obviously isn’t. She recently finished writing her first completed novel, GENIGMA. She is currently working on her second novel, set in the New Orleans and New York jazz scenes during the Civil Rights era. She can be found on Twitter @jarikajohnson, Instagram @lovejarika, or at jarikajohnson.com.

Jarika Johnson worked with the writer Tom Stern.

Serve as a Mentor

Apply to be a Writer to Writer mentor.

Request a Mentor

Apply to be a Writer to Writer mentee.

Previous Participants

See a list of previous Writer to Writer participants.