About
On the work, and the life around it.
Biography
Johanna Gibson is a writer and facilitator born in the Virgin Islands and now based in the UK. Her writing returns often to questions of inheritance, migration, and the mythos of the Caribbean.
Her writing has appeared in Calaloo Journal,Sx Salon, Moko Magazine, and others.
She holds a BA in English from the University of Southampton and is hard at work on her first novel.
Selected
Achievements
- 2026Black Artists Grant, July Recipient
- 2026London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme
- 2025Barbican Young Poets
- 2025BVI Emerging Writer’s Fellowship
- 2024Southbank New Poets Collective
- 2023Obsidian Foundation Retreat
- 2023Bridport Poetry Prize, Shortlist
- 2022Bocas Emerging Writer’s Fellowship, Shortlist