Tatiana Johnson-Boria

Tatiana (she/her) is the author of Nocturne in Joy (2023), winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award in Poetry. She’s an educator and facilitator who uses her writing practice to dismantle racism, reckon with trauma, and to cultivate healing. She’s an award-winning writer who’s received fellowships from Tin House, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, The MacDowell Residency, and others.

Tatiana is also the founder of Johnson-Boria Creative, where she uses the power of creativity and coaching to help individuals and visionary organizations balance big ideas and execution, to manifest their creative dreams.

She’s worked for more than a decade instructing and coaching writers and creatives to reach their goals. She also has extensive experience helping organizations do the same through creative strategy, communications, and marketing. She believes in uplifting the creative potential of all, especially those most often marginalized in our society.

Tatiana completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College and teaches at Emerson College, GrubStreet, and others. Find her work in or forthcoming at the Academy of American Poets, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, among others. She’s represented by Lauren Scovel at Laura Gross Literary.