Wendy Johnson

TWH 2025 Teaching Assistant (Nonfiction)

Dr. Wendy Johnson is a family physician, community activist, and writer whose career includes stints scaling up HIV treatment in Mozambique, overseeing a large urban public health department and, most recently, directing a community clinic in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has been published in McSweeney’s, The Nation, The Boston Review, as well as newspapers in Cleveland, Seattle and Santa Fe. She is an alum of writing residencies at Hedgebrook and Mesa Refuge. Most of her spare time is spent cultivating and rewilding her acre and a half homestead, and finishing her first book, “The Ecology Cure”, about the deep interrelatedness between personal wellness, our connections with each other, and the health of our environment.