Cheri Johnson grew up in Lake of the Woods County in northern Minnesota. Her fiction and poetry have been published in many journals and magazines, including The Blue Skunk Review, Dust and Fire, Gypsy Cab and Poetry Motel, and her reviews and essays have been published in The Minnesota Women's Press, Siren and The Hollins Critic. She has an MA in English and creative writing from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.