Sean Johnston was born in Saskatoon and grew up in Asquith, Saskatchewan. He has worked across the prairies as a labourer and surveyor, received a Bachelor of Journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa, and recently finished a MA in Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick. His poetry and fiction has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Speak! (Broken Jaw Press). The manuscript for A Day Does Not Go By won the 2002 David Adams Richards Award for fiction. Johnston currently lives in Vancouver.
This House
Nothing Like This
Here, and Now
Some Words, She Said
The Reporter and the Reporter
The Whole Time I Was Here
Once Took a Room
Spiders Door to Door
Drowning
You Still Don't
The Saint
A Grey Pattern of Green
Their Names
The Sorts of Things a Man Should Know
No Hands for Taking
There is a Way
They're for You
What You Need
We Can't Go On Like This
In Awful Repair
Taxi
Prayer
The Way It Happened Always
We'll Keep an Eye Out
Something I Learned from the News
The Underdog
The Hero Comes Home
