Whimsical, literary chamber-folk
KIM JUNE JOHNSON is an award-winning singer-songwriter and poet living on the unceded territory of the Komoks First Nations. Her fifth album, “Songs For a Quiet Day” is a collection of small songs praising quiet things, and will be released in August 2025. The video for the single “Oh To Love What Is Lovely” was handmade by Kim using acrylic paint on canvas, collage, photographs and stop-motion animation.
Her poems and short nonfiction have appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, Room, Prairie Fire, Arc Poetry, The New Quarterly, PINHOLE, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things and elsewhere. Her live shows combine music and improv poetry readings and are often performed in living rooms and small halls with her cellist, Jordie Robinson.
In a previous life (early 2000s) she was an internationally distributed Christian worship singer before her faith fell apart and she started working in the field of religious & spiritual trauma. But that’s another story.
She hosts an online writing community called Cozy Sunday Write-ins and teaches songwriting and writing workshops online and in-person. She lives in a draughty house beside a creek with her teen daughter and an assortment of animals.
“A rare and substantial talent”
Eclipse
“Her songs are luminous… lyrics rooted in poetry,
Caterwaul Magazine
melodies that seem to arise from a long-lost place yet are so
beautifully grounded in structure and form . . . the work of an
exquisite artist.”
