Yeva Johnson

Alum 2022, Fellow 2022
Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellow 2022

Yeva is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, musician, and physician. Her work has appeared in the Bellingham Review, Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color Anthology, and Yemassee. Her debut chapbook, Analog Poet Blues, was published in 2023. Yeva is a past Show Us Your Spines Artist-in-Residence (SF Public Library) and poet in QTPOC4SHO, a San Francisco artists collective. At Mesa Refuge, she worked on A Weaving, which includes poems of bodies, of kinship, and of water, earth and sky into a verbal heirloom of a queer BIPOC woman’s expression of what it means to lead a life of worth.