Leah Johnson is a full-time professor on the College Writing faculty at American University in Washington, DC and a member of the Surrey Street Poets. Her work has been published in Green Mountains Review and in The Healing Muse. In previous incarnations, she has been a journalist, co-founder and artistic director of Georgetown’s Dumbarton Concert Series, US coordinator for Yehudi Menhuin’s outreach program Live Music Now!, and a piano teacher.