Johnny Damm is the author of The Science of Things Familiar (The Operating System), named by the Publishers Weekly Critics Poll as one of the best graphic novels of 2017, and Failure Biographies (forthcoming 2021). His comics, prose, and visual poetry have appeared in Guernica, Poetry, the Rumpus, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. He lives in Santa Cruz, CA and teaches at San José State University.
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