Christopher Johnson

Christopher Johnson is a writer based in the Chicago area. He has been a merchant seaman, a high school English teacher, a corporate communications writer, a textbook-publishing executive, an educational consultant, and a free-lance writer. His new novel, In the Heart of the Woods, was published this year by 12 Willows Press. Bill Kurtis, television journalist, author, and environmentalist, write about the novel: “Maybe this is how we save the world around us, through the eyes of children who can see the magic that fades in the years spent growing old.”

In 2006, the University of New Hampshire Press published his first book, This Grand and Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains. His second book, which he co-authored with a prominent New Hampshire forester named David Govatski, was Forests for the People: The Story of America’s Eastern National Forests, published by Island Press in 2013. He has published short stories, articles, and essays in The Progressive, Appalachia, Mother Earth News, Snowy Egret, Earth Island Journal, Chicago Wilderness, American Forests, Chicago Life, and other magazines and journals. He holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an M.A. from Northwestern University.