[2] He received his bachelor's degree from Hampshire College and completed his MFA in creative writing at Columbia University in 2019.
[6] He stated in an interview for Mashable, "Autism scholarship characterizes folks on the spectrum as 'black and white thinkers' — and that's quite true for me.
"[5] Johnson is co-founder and poetry editor of Deaf Poets Society literary magazine, which was created in 2016 to specifically center works by writers with disabilities and those who are d/Deaf.
[6][1] The magazine was developed with accessibility in mind, such as providing works in various formats including text, audio, and images.
[4] In a New York Times review Stephanie Burt described the collection: "It’s challenging work, in its language, its stories, its subcultural references (“prince died for fem bois”), yet it offers pellucid queer intimacies.