Join us in welcoming the Adult All Iowa Reads 2025 author, Tim Johnston, to the Carroll Public Library. Both the Brown Bag and Evening Book Clubs will be reading Distant Sons in March before Tim’s visit.
Tim Johnston is also the author of the novels Distant Sons, The Current and Descent, the story collection Irish Girl, and the YA novel Never So Green. The stories of Irish Girl won an O. Henry Prize, the New Letters Award for Writers, and the Gival Press Short Story Award, while the collection itself won the 2009 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Tim’s stories have also appeared in New England Review, New Letters, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, Double Take, Best Life Magazine, and Narrative Magazine, among others. Tim holds degrees from the University of Iowa and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A carpenter for most of his adult life, he has also taught creative writing at The George Washington University and the University of Memphis. He is the recipient of the 2015 Iowa Author Award, and currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
