Johnson is the director of the Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department. She talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the various funding and support programs that the department offers as well as the Poet Laureate and City Historian programs. They also talk about her novel, Stray City, and how it adresses concepts of family and community, and how that has changed over the years. They also talk about foraging, karaoke, observing the world as an artist, avoiding adverbs, and the joy of squeezing puffball mushrooms.