JOHANNA MAGIN

POETRY & PHOTOGRAPHY

Johanna Magin writes poetry and hybrid forms from her perch in Paris. She engages with poetry as an embodied form of research-creation—à la Erin Manning and Brian Massumi—that is as much an aesthetic praxis as it is an ethical and epistemological one. Her writing has been published widely in the US, Canada, and the UK (more in the Poetry section). Her many honors include: twice finalist for the National Poetry Series (US, 2025 and 2026), twice finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize (Canada, 2024 and 2026), finalist for Narrative Magazine’s 2025 Poetry Contest (US), shortlisted for the 2025 Fish Publishing Prize (Ireland), winner of the 2024 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize (US), and longlisted for the 2024 National Poetry Competition (UK). She earned a PhD from Columbia University and taught for nearly 15 years at the university level on subjects ranging from philosophy as a way of life, to the hermeneutics of the self, to the politics of contemporary poetry.