Travis Johnston was raised in a Navy home as his father served 24 years in the US Navy as both an enlisted and commissioned personnel. Travis began writing seriously at about the age of 16 and finished his first book by age 17: Darkness Speaks. Travis ended up developing into an addict and it is his passion to reach as many people who suffer from the disease of addiction with his most recent efforts in this passion being the release of his book Next Chapter Please: Addiction in Poetry.