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About
Phyllis Johnson
experience
awards  
accomplishments  
freelance photojournalist for
local newspapers

belongs to the Chesapeake Bay
Poets group

served as PR person for
Chesapeake Romance Writers

Newspaper columnist for Your
Corner- The Virginian-Pilot
some acting experience in bit
roles for the Discovery
Channel   
FBI Files, New Detectives,
Diagnosis Unknown, Psychic
Investigator
speaks on writing at
local colleges

Past speaker for Chesapeake
Reading Council’s Young
Writer’s Reception

Poetry workshop instructor-
Workshops for Chesapeake
Romance Writers and Virginia
Romance Writer groups


freelance photojournalist for
local newspapers

belongs to the Chesapeake Bay
Poets group

served on the reader survey
panel for Working Mother
magazine

a weekly humor columnist for
five years

some acting experience in bit
roles for the Discovery
Channel   

  • "Diagnosis Unknown"-
    Hotline phone operator

  • "Boys of Company H"-
    woman greeting soldiers
    Seeds of Death- hospital
    administrator

  • "FBI Files"- a hotel
    manager

occasionally entertains with
some of her witty poetry at Red
Hat Society functions

speaks on romance writing at
local colleges
humor pieces have won first
place twice in online
competition on the Humor
and the Life website


Being Frank with Anne
poetry book archived at the
Anne Frank House in
Amsterdam- 2008  and also
reviewed by Virginia’s Poet
Laureate Carolyn Kreiter-
Foronda and the 2007
Pulitzer prize winner for
poetry, Natasha


humor pieces have won first
place twice in online
competition on the Humor
and the Life website
Bit  role in independent film-
Sweet Good Fortune- aired at the
Naro Theatre

Modeled for Days Inn Hotels
Ad ran in the yellow pages, on
brochures, on website
advertising for Days Inn Hotels

Infomercial for Chlorox

Role in film for Coastal video on
child abuse prevention

Member of:

Chesapeake Romance Writers
Romance Writers of America
Chesapeake Bay Poets
Society of Children’s Book
Writers and Illustrators
Poetry Society of Virginia


humor pieces have won first
place twice in online competition
on the Humor and the Life
website
"To me, the greatest
pleasure of writing is not
what it's about,but  the
music the words make."
Truman Capote