Born and raised in New Orleans, T. Geronimo Johnson is the bestselling author of WELCOME TO BRAGGSVILLE and HOLD IT 'TIL IT HURTS, a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. He received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and his M.A. in language, literacy and culture from UC Berkeley. He has taught writing and held fellowships --- including a Stegner Fellowship and an Iowa Arts Fellowship --- at Arizona State University, Iowa, Berkeley, Western Michigan University and Stanford. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Books by T. Geronimo Johnson

Welcome to Braggsville

by T. Geronimo Johnson - Fiction

UC Berkley freshman D’aron Davenport is uncertain about his place until one disastrous party brings him three idiosyncratic best friends. But everything changes in the group’s alternative history class when D’aron lets slip that his hometown hosts an annual Civil War reenactment, recently rebranded “Patriot Days.” His announcement is met with righteous indignation and inspires one of his friends to suggest a “performative intervention” to protest the reenactment.