{"id":26294,"date":"2025-05-01T10:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=26294"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:36","slug":"chris-johnson","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/chris-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Johnson has worked in publishing for over a decade, beginning with Carleton\u2019s student-run literary magazine <em>In\/Words<\/em>. He is the Managing Editor of <em>Arc<\/em> Poetry Magazine, a contract instructor at Carleton University, and the Editorial Assistant at Nightwood Editions. He has published his poetry in various magazines and journals, and he performs in the sound-poetry ensemble Quatour Gualour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two things I took away from my Carleton English degree are a deep, continuing admiration of great literature and an appreciation of the communities of writers that are required to allow great literature to exist. During my degree I was especially drawn to English courses about Canadian poetry and I was consistently amazed by the various small-press movements that have pushed forward this country\u2019s literary history. I\u2019m very grateful to be involved in the publishing sector and I enjoy bringing to my work the lessons I learned from my Carleton English degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve always enjoyed the fact that Carleton is centred in a major city while it is also simultaneously a little bit tucked away. This always gave Carleton the air of being an insider and an outsider, a place where you can be a part of the conversation while also feeling like an onlooker. While I became engaged in Ottawa\u2019s literary scene through my involvement with a student-run literary magazine, I also grew more and more aware of how Ottawa\u2019s writing community is extremely different from the bigger publishing centres in Toronto and Montreal. I was able to build connections while I was a Carleton student, which led to opportunities with various literary organizations after I graduated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26295,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Chris","cu_people_last_name":"Johnson","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[26],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-26294","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Managing Editor of Arc Poetry Magazine and Editorial Assistant of Nightwood Editions","cu_people_degree":"BA Honours English (Carleton, 2013); MA English (Carleton, 2014)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ceeeejohnson\/?originalSubdomain=ca","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/26294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/26294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26296,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/26294\/revisions\/26296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=26294"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=26294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}