Michael K. Johnson is Professor of American Literature at the University of Maine-Farmington.
His most recent books are Can’t Stand Still: Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance and A Black Woman’s West: The Life of Rose B. Gordon and Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and a Genre

Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre received the Western Literature Association’s 2024 Thomas J. Lyons Award for best book in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies.