Olivia Johnson is a Minnesota native from Duluth. She has been recognized for placing 1st in the 2019 Michigan State University Benvenuto High School Poetry Competition in Poetry of 2019, being a semi-finalist in both the 2019 ONU Single Poem Broadside Contest and the 2019 Lake Effect National High School Poetry Competition, receiving an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest of Hollins University, and winning the 2020 National Writers Series Judith Lang Creative Writing Award. She has also been recognized for winning four Gold Keys, two Honorable Mentions, three Silver Keys, and an American Voices Nomination in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Her work has also appeared in the Red Wheelbarrow. Olivia will be attending the University of Victoria in British Columbia this fall.