About the Author

Bob Johnston is a retired petroleum engineer and translator. His published works include a number of papers in the scientific press and eight books translated from Russian.

He waited until his sixtieth year to begin writing serious poetry, and over the next thirty years he has been trying to catch up. His poetry and short stories have been published in twenty-odd literary journals.

He lives in Las Vegas, New Mexico with his wife and some hope of completing his memoirs and The Great American Novel.