Helene Johnson

"Helene Johnson (1906-1995) was born in Boston, MA. After early success as a poet, she moved to Manhattan in 1927 to live with her cousin, Dorothy West. From 1925 to 1935, Johnson published in the periodicals Messenger, Opportunity, Fire!!, Challenge, Palms, Vanity Fair, Saturday Evening Quill, and Harlem. She was also included in the anthologies The Book of American Negro Poetry (1931), The New Negro (1925), and Caroling Dusk (1927). Largely forgotten, her early work was revived by Verner D. Mitchell in This Waiting For Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance (2000)."--Publisher's website.