L. A. Johnson is the author of the chapbook Little Climates. The winner of the 2022 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the 2022 Greensboro Review Poetry Prize, the 2021 Rumi Prize in Poetry from Arts & Letters, and the 2021 Gregory Djanikian Scholarship by Adroit Journal, her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere.