Johnnie Christmas is a #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novelist and the author of Gamerville. His 2022 middle-grade graphic novel debut, Swim Team, earned a spot on the National Book Awards longlist and received a Coretta Scott King Award Illustrator Honor. It also won the BCALA Literary Award, the Black-Eyed Susan Award, the Maud Hart Lovelace Award, and the Yellowhammer Award, with many nominations, including the Eisner and Harvey Awards. He is the writer and co-creator of the sci-fi series Tartarus, and his book Firebug earned a Joe Shuster Outstanding Cartoonist nomination. Additionally, he co-created the series Angel Catbird with celebrated writer Margaret Atwood and adapted William Gibson’s lost screenplay for Alien 3 into a critically acclaimed graphic novel of the same name. A graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, he earned a BFA in Communication Design/Illustration.

A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, Johnnie makes his home in Vancouver, British Columbia.