About the Author

Award-winning Southern writer Chris McClain Johnson started writing stories as a child, inspired by the beauty and wonders of her family farms in Mayfield, Kentucky. She graduated from Murray State University in Kentucky, and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee, for almost 40 years.

At age 60, Chris fulfills a lifelong dream of having her first book published. Three Guesses, recipient of Regal House Publishing’s 2023 Fugere Book Prize Recognizing Finely Crafted Novellas, releases on June 17, 2025. Her debut epistolary novella has received wide praise for being “intensely clever” and “wildly entertaining and smart” with “intimate, riveting prose” and “a fascinating look at modern friendship.”

“My writing is literary fiction and a bit speculative at times. My characters are usually trying to find their places in this crazy world or doing their very best to manage the world they’re in—soul searchers, daydreamers, lovers, family, friends, and mere acquaintances whose one-time meeting just might change the very threads of their life tapestries.”
–Chris McClain Johnson