Mark Johnson
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Mark Johnson joined The Washington Post in July 2022 after 22 years at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where he covered health and science.
As a 2016-2017 O'Brien Fellow at Marquette University, he reported on infectious diseases and the fear of the next pandemic in Kenya, Uganda, and Brazil. He covered small-town government and corruption at The Providence Journal from 1994 to 2000, serving for two years as the newspaper's Massachusetts bureau manager.
His first novel, Though The Earth Gives Way, was published in January 2022. Johnson graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor's in English literature.
