John Thomson

John Thomson was born and raised in San Diego, and is a graduate of Humboldt State University. His stories have appeared in several literary magazines, including Collateral, Terrain, The Raven's Perch and others. His story, "Out of Good Ground" won Terrain Literary Journal's 2018 prize for fiction. He has worked as a government wildlife biologist and as a land steward for a nonprofit land trust in Northern California, where he and his wife live close to their two grown daughters.