Lee Johnson has a B.A. from Bennington and an MFA in fiction from the University of Virginia. His work has appeared in The Oxford American, the Mississippi Review, Meridian, Salamander, Appalachian Heritage and The Common, and he has recently completed his first novel, Nitro Mountain. He lives in North Bennington, Vt.
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