Hello and welcome to Miller Aud-cast, the Missouri Review podcast where we listen to and discuss the finalists for the 2021 Miller Audio Prize. I’m Marc McKee, managing editor, and the weather on the internet is half a billion dogs, 13 mudslides, 5 of which are on fire, gossip that looks like advertising, and advertising that looks like gossip: hang onto your brollys. Thankfully, the Aud-cast is here for episode 38, featuring the latest finalist for the 2021 Miller Audio Prize in Prose, “Time Travel,” by Toni Ann Johnson.

Toni Ann Johnson's short fiction and essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Hunger Mountain, Callaloo, The Emerson Review, Coachella Review, and elsewhere. A novel, Remedy For a Broken Angel was nominated for a 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. A novella, Homegoing won Accents Publishing's inaugural novella contest and was released in May of 2021. A linked story collection, Light Skin Gone to Waste  won the 2021 Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction and is forthcoming from The University of Georgia Press in 2022. "Time Travel" is part of this collection. Johnson was the Humanitas Prize-winning screenwriter of the TV movie Ruby Bridges. She also wrote the second installment of the Step Up dance franchise, Step Up 2: The Streets. 

Learn more and follow her on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Her social media handles will be up in the show notes.

Social handles:
Twitter handle: @toniannjohnson  https://twitter.com/toniannjohnson
Instagram is treeladytoniann  https://www.instagram.com/treeladytoniann/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/toniannjohnson/

Stick around after the piece to hear me and contest editor Bailey Boyd marvel at the ingenious conceit and the potent emotional resonance, and then listen to it again. Bask in its wisdom and charity.

Aud-cast 39 is on its way soon, so BE ALERT. Thanks as always to the Missouri Review contest editor, Bailey Boyd, and to Patricia Miller, for her generous support for the Miller Audio Prize. 

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