Mark Francis Johnson's most recent books include SHAM REFUGIA (Hiding Press, 2020), HOW TO FLIT (Roof Books, 2018), CAN OF HUMAN HEAT (Golias Books, 2017), and AFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE PARK (Make Now Press, 2015). He is one-third of Hiding Press.
Fiction. "AFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE PARK is an angry book. But, thankfully, not in the way we want it to be: it's not a satire, nor a tract, nor a critique—there's no righteous, organizing ideology, nor, for that matter, any coherent narrative voice that...
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Poetry. Mark Francis Johnson's CAN OF HUMAN HEAT takes the traditional worldbuilding function of speculative writing and distorts it around its most far-flung, self-reflexive poles. It isn't a book about a fantasy world or alternative timeline; it r...
Poetry. Disaster and delight collide in this quick-witted collection, HOW TO FLIT. Distorted advertisements, headlines, and familiar expressions pepper the pages, as the poems endlessly calculate—"In fifty years the export market for tomorrow's reve...