Hi, I’m so glad you’ve chosen to pop by my website! My name is Emma Johnson, or better known by my author name, E.A. Johnson. (It’s my first and middle initial!)
As best said by Freddie Mercury, I think it was “written in the stars” for me to become an author. I spoke long before I learned to walk. My parents noticed me reading anchors’ names on TV and signs on billboards when we’d drive around town. The most tell-tale sign had to be when they would hand me a board-book upside down, and I knew to flip it right-side up to read.
Reading has always been my livelihood; there was a good chance you’d find me in the corner of my elementary classroom’s library or reading once I finished my homework. In fifth grade, we had a week of assigned writing time with a list of prompts to choose from. I remember sitting at my desk with a pencil and going, “Wait, this is more fun than I thought it would be.” I still have that story, bad plot, poor spelling, and all, as I know it was the domino that dropped and started the chain of events.
In middle school, I graduated from writing three to four-page stories to writing a forty-page one. There was something about being submerged in a world I had control of and the joy of not knowing where my mind would take me. Before I knew, by the end of high school, I’d written several short stories, a movie script, multiple poems, and a first draft of a novel.
There was no question that I was going to pick a major related to English or writing in college. However, I wanted to be the creator instead of the analyst when it came to books. I graduated from Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Creative Writing program in 2025, getting my Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing with a minor in Mass Media. I still remember crying after class the first day I started my major. It wasn’t just because I was finished with my gen-ed courses (although I was glad those were done), but it was because I was finally working on what I knew I was meant to do with my life.
Throughout high school and college, I’d amassed a significant amount of poems in a document. Ranging from the heartbreak I’d felt from crushes, mental health troubles I’d overcome, and finding out I was the only one who could pull me from the depths of my psyche, I knew there was potential I could draw out.
That led me to self-publishing my first book, a collection of poetry called “Blissfully Heartbroken.” From my first poem I wrote towards the end of my sophomore year of high school in 2019, to adding the final one I wrote mid-2025, it’s a book that speaks to readers of all ages and the challenges they’ve overcome.
I’m so glad you’re here, and I hope you’ll follow along on my writing journey!
All my love,
E.A. Johnson
Author E.A. Johnson 