Wayne Johns’ first book of poems, Antipsalm, received the Editor's Choice prize in Unicorn Press’ First Book Series and Honorable Mention for the 2019 Brockman-Campbell Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society, which honors the best book published by a NC writer. He is also the author of two chapbooks, The Exclusion Zone, which received the Rane Arroyo prize from Seven Kitchens Press, and An Invisible Veil Between Us, selected by David Trinidad for the Frank O’Hara chapbook prize. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets, New England Review, Ploughshares, Image, and Prairie Schooner, among others. A former Lambda Literary Fellow in fiction, and Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University, a recent short story can be found in Every True Pleasure: LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina (UNC Press, 2019).