Author

Fenton Johnson

Fenton Johnson

Fenton Johnson is an author and teacher. His novel “Scissors, Paper, Rock” is the Kentucky Humanities Kentucky Reads selection for 2024. His many works of fiction and nonfiction include the documentary film “Stranger with a Camera” directed by Elizabeth Barret and produced by Apalshop. He grew up in Nelson County and received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and later earned an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His literary awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lambda Literary Awards in fiction and creative nonfiction and membership in the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.

Commentary

Why Sundance should come to Kentucky, other places where rights are under attack
By: - October 29, 2024

Angela Cooper and Ona Marshall contributed a powerful commentary regarding the Sundance Institute’s elimination of Louisville from its list of host cities. I support everything they say, and thank them for writing it. But as a lifelong activist in documentary and independent filmmaking, I offer another perspective — not contradictory but supplemental. If one believes […]