Andrew Johnson is the editor of Forum, an arts magazine published by the Kansas City Artists Coalition. He is the author of two collections of prose and poetry, The Thread (2022) and On Earth As It Is (2017). His essays and poems have appeared in The Sun, Image, Commonweal, Guernica, Crazyhorse, KC Studio, and elsewhere. His multimedia installation Closure Is Not Justice won a Rocket Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Andrew is the recipient of a Charlotte Street Foundation studio residency, an Arts KC Inspiration grant, and a Vermont Studio Center residency. He lives in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri with his wife and three kids.