john lang

John Lang was born in the Arizona State adoption system, then adopted and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended preparatory school at New Mexico Military Institute, where he wrote his first poem, after which he attended undergraduate school at Northern Arizona University. John attended graduate school in the MFA Writing program at Columbia University.

For many years, John was a journeyman pop songwriter in Hollywood, California, working in and out of recording studios and music publishing houses, writing songs for everyone from Mr. Mister to Tupac Shakur to Celine Dion, all the time scribbling outside the music box, in between the lines, as much fiction as he could muster.

Now John lives in Southern California with his wife and son.