Johnson, Maria is a coastal New England–based writer and former crime reporter. Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1986, she studied anthropology and journalism at the University of Texas at Austin before moving to Providence, Rhode Island, where she covered small-town courts and waterfront labor for a regional paper. Her short fiction has appeared in indie magazines and anthologies focused on dark folklore and maritime myth. When not writing, she volunteers with a lighthouse preservation group and hikes tidal flats with a field notebook. She lives with her partner and a retired harbor cat in a drafty apartment within earshot of foghorns.
