Johnson, J. Ivanel: - J. Ivanel Johnson is the pen name for a disabled author/playwright who now resides on a remote farm in the Appalachians of New Brunswick. She strives always to write about marginalized and culturally-diverse characters, many based on people from the First Nations, inner city or mountain communities where she has previously lived and taught across the UK, USA and Canada.Her most recently-published fiction includes 2019's Iron Bone, a short story about coping with disability in the groundbreaking Nothing Without Us anthology by Renaissance Press, as well as works in other literary journals and anthologies.Just A STILL LIFE is her debut novel, first outlined 75 years ago by her Ontario author-grandmother.