When John F. Duffy became a film student at Columbia College Chicago, he had big dreams of writing and directing Hollywood films. By the time he graduated, he had fallen in love with literary fiction. For the next twenty years, Duffy found himself carving a very unusual life path that took him from Chicago to Phoenix, Ann Arbor to Austin, eventually landing him outside of Bloomington, Indiana.
Across that time Duffy worked on documentary films, made skate videos, spent a year couch surfing, got sober, engaged with environmental activism, waited more tables than he'd like to remember, published a non-fiction book, created podcasts, had a daughter, built a cabin in the woods, and fell in love with combat sports.
Currently, Duffy works as a writer and producer of podcasts and documentary films. He regularly writes works of short fiction, and in 2022 he completed his debut novel, "A Ballroom for Ghost Dancing." When he isn't writing, Duffy can be found sipping coffee with his wife, playing Pokemon with his daughter, and further deforming his ears at the nearest Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gym.
