Socrates Johnson

Socrates Johnson is a nearly 20 year veteran of the US Army who served in Afghanistan. Once an aspiring visual artist, turned writer, whose current work blurs the line between philosophy, speculative fiction and storytelling. Before studying philosophy at the University of Oxford, he began his academic journey as a journalism major and college dropout—though, like much of his story, the details tend to shift depending on who’s asking. He is the author of several published graphic novels, short stories, comic books and illustrated works, all released under a different name. This, however, is the first creative endeavor to bear the name Socrates Johnson—or at least, the first he’s willing to claim. Socrates lives with his loving wife in a remote mountain town in one of America’s most sparsely populated states, where the wilderness is vast, the neighbors are few, and the dogs—whom he openly admits he prefers to people—are always close by. When asked about the line between fiction and reality, he only smiles and says, “Art doesn’t lie. People often do.”