Johnson, James is an American romance author who blends high-country landscapes with slow-burn chemistry. Raised on the South Plains of Texas, he studied geography at the University of New Mexico and later worked as a seasonal park ranger and aerial wildlife survey tech, experiences that inform his vivid sense of place. After a stint dispatching small aircraft for a regional operator, he turned to writing full-time, publishing contemporary Western romances known for grit, tenderness, and practical details about life off the paved road. He lives in Taos, New Mexico, with his husband and a rescue cattle dog, and when he is not drafting, he hikes canyon rims, tunes a dented steel-string, and volunteers with a local literacy nonprofit.
