Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer; Bret Anthony Johnston is an American author.

He is also the editor of the non-fiction work, Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer.

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.