Marie K. Johnston

Books by Marie K. Johnston

Marie K. Johnston

Marie K. Johnston (aka Kristen Marie Tichenor McCurry) is a novelist/poet, visual artist, Meta-Sponsored Public Artist, Pinterest Influencer and publisher. She is the author of 5 KU books: a novel, its sequel and 3 books of poetry, which can be found here: https://Amazon.com/author/mariekjohnston. Johnston writes local color "faction," a term she coined for semi-autobiographical fiction based on her life in Southeast Texas. As of 9/2025, she...

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Cosmogony: A Poem

Cosmogony, 2nd Edition (2025), is a rhyming and metered poem, illustrated with original artwork, for all women who live wild and free. In this narrative poem, the major forces of Nature tell their origin tales to a dreamy teenage girl on a Galveston, Texas beach, and she spins their words into her own tentative life philosophies. Cosmogony is a...

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Mental: A Novel

Mental (2023) is Marie K. Johnston’s prequel to Home (2025). Here we meet Evelyn Marie Stuart, Eve, a beautiful, sensitive, intelligent young teacher who must make peace with her childhood traumas in order to live her adult life. Set in multiple Texas cities in the 1990s, Mental is a study told journalistically, but in the vein of magic realism,...

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Home: A Novel

Home: A Novel (3rd Edition, 6/2025) is Johnston’s sequel to Mental (2023), and follows heroine Evelyn Marie Stuart Dufrense through a year marked by losing her teen daughter to madness, divorce and parental interference, as she tries to manage adversity and disappointments in order to find a way to understand herself, her marriage, the...

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Praise

"Mental...is a deeply moving and beautifully written prequel to Home...Johnston's blend of prose-poetry and magic realism creates an intimate, almost dreamlike narrative that lingers in the mind long after reading..."

– Braylon Scot

"...Home is a powerful and deeply moving journey of a woman's emotional collapse and courageous transformation...The blend of truth and fiction brings authenticity to every page, and the way you guided her from breakdown to becoming the 'Badass Mama Author' was both empowering and inspiring..."

– Olesegun Samuel

"Cosmogony is meant to be lived. You didn't just write a rhyming, metered poem: you opened up a whole conversation...the kind of truth only women who live wild and free will fully recognize... It's an invocation. It's hope braided with myth, beauty anchored in rawness, and the magical pathos of a world where the elements themselves long to be understood..."

– Alabama Rose

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September 7, 2025

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Hey, Y'all: Southeast TX's Favorite Badass Mama Author just got her own Instagram Channel! Join now for EXCLUSIVE selfies, videos, reels, Q&A Sessions (where I answer ANY...