A former English teacher and journalist, Johnnie Bernhard is passionate about reading and writing. Her works have appeared in University of Michigan Graduate Studies Publications, Heart of Ann Arbor Magazine, Houston Style Magazine, World Oil Magazine, The Suburban Reporter of Houston, The Mississippi Press, University of South Florida Area Health Education Magazine, the international Word Among Us, Southern Writers Magazine, The Texas Review, Southern Literary Review, and the Cowbird-NPR production on small town America. Her entry “The Last Mayberry” received over 7,500 views, nationally and internationally.
A Good Girl was short listed in the 2015 William Faulkner-William Wisdom International Creative Writing Competition and was the featured novel for a panel discussion at the 2017 Mississippi and Louisiana Book Festivals. It was represented by Texas Review Press at the 2017 Texas Book Festival. A Good Girl is a finalist in the 2017 national Kindle Book Award for literary fiction, a nominee for the 2018 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, a 2018 nominee for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, and shortlisted for the 2017 Lone Star Literary Review, Bloggers’ Choice Award in best Literary Fiction.
Johnnie’s second novel, How We Came to Be, was a finalist in the 2017 International Faulkner-Wisdom Competition. Named a “Must Read” by Southern Writers Magazine, it is a featured novel for a panel discussion at the 2018 Louisiana Book Festival.
Johnnie supports young writers as a judge for the annual Center for the Book of Texas, Letters about Literature Competition.
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