Johnnie Bernhard
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Johnnie Bernhard

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Johnnie Bernhard’s passion is reading and writing. Her first novel, A Good Girl, is a 2017 finalist in the national Kindle Book Awards, a Pen/Bingham nominee, and shortlisted for the 2015 Wisdom-Faulkner international Writing Competition. In 2018, A Good Girl was nominated by the Institute of Mississippi Arts and Letters for Fiction of the Year and accepted into the Texas Center for the Book permanent collection. Her second novel, How We Came to Be, was released in 2018. It has received stellar reviews, including being named a "Must Read" by Southern Writers Magazine and listed as a 2018 Summer Reading List choice by Deep South Magazine. It was awarded the Summer all Book Prize by Lamar University in 2019. Johnnie's third novel, Sisters of the Undertow, was chosen as Best of the University Presses, 100 Books by Literary Hub and the Association of University Presses. It received First Place in the Press Women of Texas Communications Contest. Her fourth novel, Hannah and Ariela was named by Publisher’s Weekly Magazine “Books to Read,” May 2022. TCU Press named the novel Best Fiction of 2022 in recognition of University Press Week, Association of University Presses. It was selected as novel of the year by the Press Women of Texas and received First Place, Fiction with the National Federation of Press Women. The Witch of Sonora, a stand-alone sequel to Hannah and Ariela, is set for publication in 2026 with Stoney Creek Publishing, a member of the Texas Book Consortium and Texas A&M University Press. Johnnie was chosen as a selected speaker in the 2020 TEDx Fearless Women Series.
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