About John Grantner

John Grantner is a retired graphic designer and photo editor who has been crafting narratives and character studies his entire life. A painter in oil and acrylic since his early teens, he is also a fine art photographer and an abstract digital artist with a penchant for manipulating imagery to tell a story. 

Grantner is an observer of human behavior with a love of literature. When he escaped the corporate treadmill, these traits led him to explore the written word as a creative medium.

His fiction has appeared in Fiction on The Web, The Bangalore Review, Killer Nashville, Bright Flash Literary Review, and Belladonna’s Garden..