Jeff Johnson burst onto the literary scene in 2009 with his critically-lauded memoir Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink (Spiegel & Grau) filled with stories from his twenty-year career as a tattoo artist in the Pacific Northwest. Johnson is now a full-time writer, artist, and musician, and Knottspeed is set in his old haunts of Portland and Los Angeles. Jeff is also the author of a modern twist on a werewolf tale Everything Under the Moon (Soft Skull Press, September 2016), and the forthcoming crime novel Lucky Supreme.