VICKI JOHNSON (she/her) is a former band nerd, White House staffer, and nonprofit director. Her 2023 debut picture book is MOLLY’S TUXEDO, illus. by Gillian Reid (Little Bee Books). Born and raised in rural GA, Vicki is a first-gen graduate of Smith College and Emory Law School, and an MFA candidate in Writing for Children & Young Adults at VCFA. She was a 2020 PB Chat Mentee, a 2020 WNDB MG mentorship finalist, and a 2018 grant recipient from the WV Div. of Arts, Culture & History and the National Endowment for the Arts. Vicki is currently working on her middle grade novel and texting cat photos to her kid. Find her overly-supportive posts on twitter @vickijohnson and IG: @vickijohnsonwrites. More: www.vickijohnsonwrites.com
