Disaster and Harmony: A Poetry Collection: 2001-2019

“Disaster and Harmony (2019)” is full of poems about personal struggle, difficult relationships, true love(s), searching for peace and finding joy despite chaos and pain. These poems are randomly arranged. Johnston writes frankly about deep depressions, marriage and family, being in love, beginnings and endings, taking joy in little and big things and personal growth.

This is her second book of poetry. Johnston recently published “Dandelions (2019),” a long poem about the wonders of childhood and Nature. She is also the author of “Mental (2018),” a novel about overcoming a difficult childhood. Her first novel, “Leaves Subsiding (2010),” written under pen name M. Yoshida McCurry, is told in the style of magic realism and is about the elusive search for happiness.