Bret Anthony Johnston

Bret Anthony Johnston is an American author. He wrote the novel Remember Me Like This and the story collection, Corpus Christi: Stories. He is also the editor of the non-fiction work, Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. He won the 2017 Sunday Times Short Story Award.

Bret Anthony Johnston
Johnston at the 2023 Texas Book Festival.
Occupation	Short story writer, novelist, essayist, college lecturer
Nationality	American
Genre	Fiction
Notable works	Corpus Christi: Stories; Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer; Waiting for Lightning
Notable awards	5 Under 35 Honoree
Website
www.bret-anthony-johnston.com

Career

Johnston is a graduate of Miami University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Oxford American, Tin House, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, Slate.com, All Things Considered, and in short story anthologies. Johnston teaches fiction writing at Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin.^[1]

Johnston is the author of the novels We Burn Daylight, Remember Me Like This and Corpus Christi: Stories.^[2]

In 2012, Waiting for Lightning premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and was released by Samuel Goldwyn Films.^[3]

Awards and honors

• 2006 National Book Foundation named a 5 under 35
• 2017 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award winner for Half of What Atlee Rouse Knows About Horses^[4]

Works

• Corpus Christi: Stories (2004)
• Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (editor) (2008)
• Waiting for Lightning (screenwriter) (2012)
• Remember Me Like This (2014)
• We Burn Daylight: A Novel (2024)