About the Author
Johanna Hedva
Johanna Hedva (they/them) is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in LA and Berlin. Their first novel On Hell was named one of Dennis Cooper’s favorites of 2018, with their second novel Your Love Is Not Good released in 2023, and their writing has been published in Triple Canopy, frieze, and The White Review. Their artwork has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Performance Space New York; the Museum of Architecture and Design, Los Angeles; and the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon. In 2019, they released the album The Sun and the Moon, and in 2020 they released Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, a collection of poetry, plays, and essays published by Sming Sming and Wolfman Books.
2025
How to Tell When We Will Die
From one of the most influential voices in disability activism comes an essay collection that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a vibrant part of life.