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Patrick Johnson graduated from the MFA program in Poetry at Washington University in St. Louis and the undergraduate English Department at UW-Madison. His book on the internet, anonymity, philosophy, and love, Gatekeeper, was selected by Khaled Mattawa as the winner of the 2019 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry and was published by Milkweed Editions. He currently lives in Chicago and works in a Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit as a physician assistant.