Johnny Gnall grew up outside Washington DC, consuming stories voraciously, often reading several books a week during his grade school years. With storytelling literally in his DNA, as an actual descendant in a line of bards and heralds, Johnny also found himself inclined, from a young age, to put pen to paper.

From journals, to poetry, to essays, to short stories, Johnny always had a notebook in a drawer somewhere, filled with neat lines of hastily scrawled prose or verse. His teachers continued to praise his writing through high school, and by the time he decided to earn a bachelor's degree from Colgate University in upstate New York, becoming an English major seemed like the obvious choice.

Life however, had other plans. After finding it challenging to land a writing job that both paid the bills and allowed him to flex the creative muscles he so desperately yearned to, Johnny decided that food would be the medium through which he told stories, and moved to San Francisco to attend culinary school.

After meeting the woman who would become his wife, and falling in love with the Bay Area, Johnny stayed in SF and began his career as a chef. He continued to write casually, though at that point, had no specific expectations or aims to do anything significant with it.

Then, when a long conversation with a good friend on the island of Maui convinced him he could accomplish something bigger and broader and loaded with intention, Johnny decided to shoot for the moon. Guided by a desire to write a story that would entertain and inspire his own children and others in their generation, he began writing The Far End. Finding that the story unfolded naturally as he simply let his fingers type, Johnny crafted his tale into a trilogy and began conceptualizing other properties to follow.

He is currently working on Book 2 of the trilogy, titled Resonance, and is thrilled to be able to connect with readers everywhere, as he crafts stories that offer thrilling, cinematic, plots and setpieces that exist anchored in reality and fueled by the emotion of their characters.