Light Skin Gone to Waste, with Toni Ann

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Toni Ann Johnson won the 2021 Flannery O'Conner Award for her linked story collection Light Skin Gone to Waste, selected for the prize and edited by Roxane Gray. Short fiction and essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Emerson Review, Hunger Mountain, Callaloo Journal, Xavier Review, and many other online and print publications. A novel, Remedy For a Broken Angel was released in 2014 and earned a 2015 NAACP Image Award nomination.

In 2020, Johnson's novella Homegoing won Accents Publishing's inaugural novella contest. The book was released in May 2021.

Johnson's screenwriting career began with a fellowship to the Sundance Screenwriter's Lab where she was invited to adapt her stage play, Gramercy Park is Closed to the Public. She went on to write assignments for studios, networks, and production companies including Touchstone, ABC, Warner Brothers, Caravan Pictures, Paramount, HBO, Lifetime, Showtime, Fox Television, and Summit Entertainment.

She is a two-time winner of the Humanitas Prize: first, for her Disney/ABC screenplay, Ruby Ridges, the true story of a child who integrated the New Orleans public school system (for which she also won a Christopher Award). She won a second Humanitas Prize in 2004 for Crown Heights, another true story she developed and wrote for Showtime Television about the Crown Heights riots of 1991. Johnson wrote the TV movie The Courage to Love, as well as the FOX TV pilot, Save The Dance (based on the feature film on which she was a participating writer). She co-wrote the feature film Step Up 2: The Streets, the second installment of the successful Step Up Franchise.

Light Skin Gone to Waste will be released on October 15, 2022, by the University of Georgia Press. It will be in select bookstores and available for purchase via most online platforms including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Indiebound, and Bookshop.org.

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