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About Me

M.D. Johnson is an author, blogger, poet and playwright. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English with a minor in Communications from Prairie View A & M University and her Masters of Management degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix. She has traveled extensively at an early age and lived in Germany, Guam, toured Paris, France; Venice, Italy; London, England; Switzerland; Singapore; Phuket, Thailand; Dubai & the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain; and Cairns, Australia. She considers San Antonio, Texas home, but currently resides in San Diego, California. She has been writing poetry since the age of 11.  Website:

http://maryannesbookshelf.com

Welcome to Maryanne's Bookshelf

She began writing in youth—not because she was told to, but because stories asked to be written. While her peers passed notes, she filled pages. While others imagined who they might become, she imagined worlds. Writing was never a phase; it was a language she already spoke fluently.

Over the years, her notebooks traveled with her—across cities, cultures, and quiet moments between destinations.


Travel widened her lens, teaching her that stories live everywhere: in people, in landscapes, in the unspoken spaces between words. Each place added texture, rhythm, and depth to her voice.

Poetry became her heartbeat—where emotion could breathe freely and truth didn’t need permission. From there, her creativity expanded naturally: children’s books filled with wonder, fantasy stories shaped by imagination and courage, journals designed as safe places for reflection...


She is not bound by genre because creativity was never meant to be boxed in. She writes for the child discovering magic, the dreamer craving escape, the reader seeking meaning, and the soul that simply wants to feel understood.

At her core, she is a storyteller and a lifelong creative—someone who believes words can heal, inspire, and open doors to new worlds.