Jocelyn Johnson’s essays and fiction have appeared in Guernica, Literary Mama, Storyglossia, and elsewhere. Her stories have placed first in contests at Our Stories and Prime Number Magazine, where her piece was also nominated for a Pushcart. Jocelyn writes and teaches art to public school children in Charlottesville, Virginia.
I aimed to painstakingly mark the route of this black child, one whom I could prove was so strikingly decent and true that America could not find fault in him unless we as a nation had projected it there.