Complex sentence: Elizabeth Johnson was born in New London, Connecticut, raised in Knoxville, Tennessee and is a graduate of Yale University and holds a MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress.
Split into simpler sentences: Elizabeth Johnson was born in New London, Connecticut, raised in Knoxville, Tennessee and is a graduate of Yale University. Kostova and holds a MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel-in-Progress.