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Fenton Johnson is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. He is the author of two novels, Crossing the River (1989) and Scissors, Paper, Rock (1993), as well as Geography of the Heart: A Memoir (1996). Scissors was nominated for the San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the Boston Review Fisk Award for best fiction of 1994. Geography received the American Library Association Award and the Lambda Literary Award for best gay/lesbian nonfiction of 1996. Johnson has served as a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and is currently a regular contributor to Harper's Magazine. Johnson has received National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships in both fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as a Stegner Fellowship in Fiction from Stanford University and a Michener Fellowship in Fiction from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. He has been a scriptwriter for public television documentaries, most recently Stranger With a Camera, screened at the Guggenheim Museum and the Sundance Film Festival. His next book Keeping Faith: A Skeptic's Journey will be published by Houghton Mifflin in March 2003.