Coralie Cederna Johnson is the author of The Wishing Years, a collection of stories about growing up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A Killing Age, a story from The Wishing Years, received a Jackson Community College English Literature essay award. Call of the Coyote won an award in a Peninsula People Magazine essay contest and was published in Is It Fact or Fiction? Other works by the author have appeared in various publications: Detroit News, Peninsula People Magazine, Porcupine Press, Above the Bridge Magazine, McCall’s, Woman’s Day, Family Circle, Decorating and Crafts, American Legion Auxiliary, Love and Money Needlecrafters’ Magazine and Workbasket.
She received an Eastern Michigan University Theater Arts Playwriting Award, in 2001, for her play Pigeons in the Park which was produced at EMU and Performance Network, an Ann Arbor professional theater. Her play Bees was produced at Boarshead professional theater in Lansing in 2002. Sacrificial Offerings, a play about women and religion was produced at EMU’s Quirk Theater in 2001 and 2002.
Coralie earned a Bachelor of Arts in Human Resource Management from Concordia College and a Masters Degree in Women’s Studies from EMU. She is retired from the University of Michigan and currently teaches as an adjunct lecturer for the EMU Women and Gender Studies Program.
With her husband Jim, Coralie lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She is the mother of Paul, Peter, Tamara and Carrie, stepmother of Teresa and Andrea and grandmother of Bryan, Allison, Jaclyn, Hunter and Logan.
