Presenter Spotlight 2015: Writer Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson

Panel: What’s So Funny About Being Mixed?, Tateuchi Democracy Forum, June 13, 2015 1:00pm-2:20pm

Featured Writers Reading , Araki Community Education Center, June 13, 2015 3:00pm-4:00pm

Mat Johnson is the author of the novels Loving Day, Pym, Drop, and Hunting in Harlem, the nonfiction novella The Great Negro Plot, and the comic books Incognegro and Dark Rain. He is a recipient of the United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. Mat Johnson is a faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. His most recent novel Loving Day was released in May 2015.