Lacy M. Johnson is a Houston-based professor, curator, and activist. She is the author of the essay collection The Reckonings (Scribner, 2018), the widely acclaimed memoir The Other Side (Tin House, 2014), and Trespasses (University of Iowa Press, 2012). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House, Guernica, and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction at Rice University and is the founding director of the Houston Flood Museum.