A graduate of the University of Southern California Master of Professional Writing Program who landed in Hawaii on Barnacle Bill’s sailboat, Kristin Johnson is an award-winning poet (two-time Blue Mountain Arts Tri-Annual Poetry contest first-place winner) and short story writer whose fiction has appeared in anthologies including the Southern California Anthology and Aleatory’s Junction. She is also a a respected journalist, and a produced playwright with theatre award nominations for her play “Greetings and Salutations” (Desert Theatre League, Palm Springs, California). Three of her books have been published–CHRISTMAS COOKIES ARE FOR GIVING was “enthusiastically recommended” by the MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW. An experienced scriptwriter, she currently favors fantasy, horror and stories based on true events. Her short screenplay “Daniel’s Letter From Heaven” has been a finalist in the 2003 British Short Screenplay Competition, ‘The Best & Most Prestigious Short Screenplay Competition in the World,’ and a quarter finalist in the 2007 Screenwriting Expo Screenplay Competition in the Short Screenplay category. One of her scripts, “Bully.com,” got pitched as a Movie of the Week.