Jack R. Johnson is a columnist for North of the James Magazine, editor of The Alliance for Progressive Virginia and a contributor to Style Magazine. For WRIR radio he produces, and contributes to Death Club Radio and Hidden Histories. His published work includes poems, short stories, articles and the novel An Animal’s Guide to Earthly Salvation. He majored in English at Virginia Commonwealth University and did graduate work at the College of William and Mary. He lives in the lush urban forest of Richmond, Virginia, with his artist wife, their kids, chickens, ducks, cats and a moody dachshund.
Publications
Articles, Poems, Short Stories
Catching a Break, A Tale of Three Funerals, 86Logic Magazine, 2022
Miracles (Finalist, 2022 J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction) Dappled Things Magazine, 2022
How They Do, New Stories, Willesden Herald – (Story of the Month), 2021
Fighting Ghosts, Lycan Press, 2019
This Woman, Like Wood, Electric Nomad’s Performance of Eternal Forest, 2018
The Prisoner, Story Teller Magazine, 2017
City of Icons, Strange Fictions ‘Zine, 2017
The Rescuer, daCunha Global, 2017
Forward to Seasons in the Bone, Luminous Warrior Press, 2017
High Bridge, Remapping Richmond’s Hallowed Ground, 2013
Sandcastles, The Antietam Review, 2011
Gigs
Hidden Histories
https://www.northofthejames.com/hidden-histories
Alliance for Progressive Virginia
https://apvonlineblog.wordpress.com/
Death Club Radio
http://www.wrir.org/show/death-club-radio/
Interviews
Groundswell, Jack and Dawn’s Civil Rights Tour, 2018
Battered Suitcase Press, Insides Jack R Johnson, 2013
Novels
An Animal’s Guide to Earthly Salvation
Vagabondage Press, 2011
In Black and White
A historical novel about the lives of Reverend Vernon Johns and Barbara Johns. To be published in second
quarter of 2022.
