J.R. Johansson is the creator and host of the Riveting Reads Podcast, which just started it's first season in December of 2019. Her books have been published in a dozen languages and more than twenty countries worldwide. In 2019, she became the first American author to be invited by the U.S. Embassy in Asuncion to travel to Paraguay through a grant she was awarded under the Fulbright-Hays Act to share American culture. She visited local underpriviliged schools as well as presenting and signing at the Asuncion International Book Fair.She lives in a valley near the mountains where the sun shines 300+ days per year with two sons, a husband, three cats, and a hot tub named Valentino.She is represented by the stellar Kathleen Rushall of Andrea Brown Literary Agency.