Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson is a professional novelist, visual artist, screenwriter, and director. He's the author of the critically acclaimed Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories & My Life in Ink, as well as Everything Under the Moon: a Novel, Knottspeed: A Love Story, Deadbomb Bingo Ray Turner, and The Darby Holland Crime Trilogy Lucky Supreme: A Novel of Many Crimes, A Long Crazy Burn and The Animals After Midnight. Upcoming novels include Fewkhead, Perfect Lingerie, and Dime Bag Sadie. Johnson's short story Cantina Kinjiku will appear in the upcoming Killer Crimes Anthology alongside Steven King and Joyce Carol Oates and it was recently adapted into a short film starring Ron Canada and Tony Dennison with Johnson directing. Lucky Supreme, A Novel Of Many Crimes was named one of the top 25 novels of 2017 by MEDIUM and the trilogy was acquired by Italian publisher Fanucci and optioned for television by producer Mark Harris of The Harris Company. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Johnson tattooed in Portland, Oregon for almost three decades, beginning at the tender age of 18. His exploits in the field are chronicled in his critically acclaimed memoir 'Tattoo Machine, Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life In Ink'. He still tattooes occasionally just to keep a hand in the game. Since then, he's had eight novels published, all well received, and he's been the ghostwriter on several memoirs. His first play, the heartwarming story of a drifter and a widow who exchange lives after a tornado, is on indefinite hold due to the pandemic. 'Low, Medium, Gone' is based on his short story Earl Compton. Jeff is a shameless punk/blues slaw rocker from way back, beginning with Dirty Bird, Floor Of The Ocean People, The Hemp Fags, and the hard blue shotgunners Jeff Johnson And The Telephones. He currently wails red meat with The Idle Hands.