Stegner Fellowship

He won the inaugural Joyce Carol Oates Award, the Rome Prize, Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and the William Saroyan International Prize.

He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he later taught writing and has held Stegner and Iowa Arts fellowships.

So I hope you enjoy this episode of Behind the Stack.

I am sitting down today with T. Geronimo Johnson for his new book, The Occidental Book of the Dead, which I have to tell you, I got into this, and I f- I finished the book, and we're not gonna get into spoilers in here at all, but I did find closing the last page, I almost felt like, "Okay, now I need to go back to the beginning and start this thing again," because of your setup and the way that you do it.

My mom used to say about certain people, "I think they love school," and you're someone to me who, who seems to love education because just going back and looking at you, you received your Bachelor in Arts in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Oglethorpe University.

You have a Master of Arts in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

You were a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and this is a little dated.

I'm sure it's now updated, but it said as 2024, you were in the process of completing a Doctor of Philosophy in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of California, Berkeley.