Donna M. Johnson

Donna M. Johnson is an American author best known for her memoir *Holy Ghost Girl*, which recounts her childhood in the inner circle of tent revivalist preacher David Terrell, starting when she was three years old until she left at age seventeen.[1][2][7] The book received critical acclaim from publications including *The New York Times*, *O Magazine*, and *Texas Monthly*, and won the Mayborn Creative Nonfiction Prize.[2][3][5] She has written for outlets like *The Dallas Morning News* and lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, poet Kirk Wilson.[1][2][3]