Chris Kempling started writing professionally
as a book reviewer in 1982 for Canadian
Materials, the journal of the Canadian Library Association. Subsequently, he had a longstanding satire
column entitled Paper Jester in the Quesnel
Cariboo Observer under the pen name of Johnny Quesnel (also syndicated to
four other newspapers). Two stories were
published with the Interior Authors Group (Kamloops, BC) Collected Works, Vol. 1 in 2010, while a poem and story were
anthologized in the British Columbia authors book Voices from the Valleys (Jodie Renner, ed.) 2015. Primarily a religion columnist with the Kamloops This Week newspaper, he dabbles
in stories, poetry, essays and song writing.
