[1] John moved to San Francisco in the 1970s and soon afterward joined Robert Gluck's Writing Workshop at Small Press Traffic.
His poems and stories began to appear in a variety of small magazines and literary journals, including America, New American Writing, CrossConnect, Kayak, Oxygen, Beatitude, Blue Unicorn, Onthebus, and Processed World.
[2] He read from his work in San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Riverside, Rochester, and Toulouse, France.
John lived in San Francisco,[3] and worked in Silicon Valley as a technical writer and editor.
John was married to artist Anne Subercaseaux in San Francisco, previously partners for 17 years.