John Bohn



is a writer and event organizer living in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.






Selected Writing


TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
in Screen Slate (July 2026)

I am Not to Blame for Unemployment Hell, and Neither Are You
in Jacobin Magazine (July 2026)

Narrating Self-Abolition: On Richard Wright

in e-flux Journal (November 2025)

Moby-Dick at the Met
in The Drift (June 2025)

Nothing to Covet: Reflections on Growing Up Near a U.S. Military Base 
in Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life (July 2022)






Events

Introduction to Native Son (1951) and post-screening Q&A
Maysles Documentary Center (September 13, 2026)

On Richard Wright: Kazembe Balagun and John Bohn in Conversation

at e-flux Screening Room (January 27, 2026)

Moby-Dick Reading Group

at Word is Change Bookstore (Summer/Fall 2024)




Contact: johnbohn423 at gmail dot com