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{{Infobox person
|name = Johanna Koljonen
|image=JohannaKoljonen2010.jpg
|nationality=Finland
|organization={{unbulleted list|[[Nordic Larp Talks]]|[[Knutepunkt]]}}
|website={{URL|johannakoljonen.wordpress.com}}
|citizenship=Sweden|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1978|06|17}}|years_active=1995-present}}
'''Johanna Koljonen''' is an experience designer and media analyst, with a continuing career as a writer, broadcaster, author and critic. She is a popular lecturer on larp and topics related to narrative participation. She was lead editor of and a significant contributor to the 2019 volume Larp Design. Her groundbreaking larp criticism, in essays like “Eye-Witness to the Illusion: The Impossibility of 360° Role-Playing” and “The Dragon Was the Least of it: Larp As Ephemera and Ruin” are widely quoted in the field. She is he co-author of the book-length larp autopsy [[Dragonbane - The Legacy|Dragonbane – The Legacy]]. She also won the innovator category of the The Swedish Grand Journalism Prize of 2011.

Johanna co-founded the [[Nordic Larp Talks]] together with [[Andie Nordgren]] and [[Petter Karlsson]] and has hosted them since 2010.