Bruce Johnson was born in Nova Scotia, where he trained as a visual artist at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (from which he since recovered) . In 1993 he moved to St. John’s Newfoundland, where he laid a pernicious root and continues still to work as the provincial art gallery’s curator of Contemporary Art as well as an essayist and critic.
In 2003, Johnson received the Christina Sabat Award for Critical Review in the Arts. In 2007 the manuscript for Firmament was short-listed for both the Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers and the Metcalf-Rooke Award. Johnson recently accompanied the Governor General, Michaëlle Jean as cultural delegate on her 2010 state trip to China.
When not in St. John's, he hides away in Caplin Cove, Trintiy Bay with his partner and two children.
Firmament is his first novel
