Kendall Johnson recently retired from his work in teaching, psychotherapy, and consulting on scene with emergency and disaster agencies, new paints and writes in Southern California. He is the author of Dear Vincent: An Artist and Psychologist Writes Back to Van Gogh; the nonfiction memoirs Chaos & Ash; and Black Box Poetics. His Fireflies Against Darkness, and More Fireflies, are published by Arroyo Seco Press, and he serves as contributing editor to the Journal of Radical Wonder.