The Day They Buried Aunt Ruth by Thomas Penn Johnson

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The Day They Buried Aunt Ruth
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Thomas Penn Johnson was born on August 22nd, 1943 in Greensboro, North Carolina, where in 1961 he graduated from James B. Dudley High School.  In 1966 he received a B.A. in Classical Studies from then-Concordia Senior College in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  In 1967 he attended Concordia Seminary in St. Louis.  In 1968 he received an M.A. in English from UNC-G, and he continued graduate studies in English literature and history at Syracuse University.  In 1969 he worked as a caseworker for the Cook County Department of Public Aid – Children’s Division.  From 1974 – 1981 he resided in Valparaiso, Indiana. In 1982 he interned in Teaching the Gifted at the North Carolina Governor’s School (Summer). In 1983 he completed requirements for an MA in history at Wake Forest University.  In 1992 he published a collection of poems entitled If Rainbows Promise Not in Vain.  In 2009 he retired from then-Edison State College in Fort Myers, Florida after serving for 26 years as an instructor of English and humanities. In retirement he published a personal essay and a dozen short stories  in various print and online journals.  In 2024 he published a full-length play entitled “AMIAS.”  In 2025 he published a collection of short fiction entitled Cora and Martha and Other Stories.  He resides in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the ancestral home of his maternal grandmother Mary Alberta (nee Diggs) Penn.