Wayne Johnson grew up in Minnesota and has spent many years living in the West. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares (Vol. 14/2&3), Story, Antioch Review, and other magazines. In the summer of 1989 he was awarded a Michener Grant for work on his novel, The Snake Game, which was published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 1990. He is presently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and lives in Menlo Park, California.