About

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.
I write about the odysseys of migrations, the transformative power of grief, womanhood and all its sorrows, and the lives and mythos of Caribbean people. My work is motivated by a desire to contribute to the literary tradition that preserves the richness of the Caribbean, its culture, creations, and contradictions while adding my own distinct voice to the literary canon.
I hope to build a body of work that moves between genres while remaining rooted in questions of history, culture and belonging. Across all my work, I seek to illuminate lives and experiences that might otherwise be forgotten, to create literature that deepens our understanding of the worlds we inherit, and to be a cultural steward for my people and our myths.
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