Quinn Carver Johnson

Quinn Carver Johnson (they/them) is a poet, printmaker, and teaching artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are the author of The Perfect Bastard (Curbstone Books, 2023), winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Poetry. Their work has also appeared in World Literature Today, Rappahannock Review, Right Hand Pointing, Cimarron Review, Red Earth Review, and elsewhere. Carver Johnson is a curator for the Woody Guthrie Center. They are the host of People's Poetry, a reading series dedicated to protest poetics. 

2026 Events
Queer/Trans Ecopoetics: Rootedness, Resistance, and Regeneration