John Ferdinand

Roy Ockers writes as John Ferdinand. He is the author of The Man at the Coffee Place, Softsadness, Stop Fighting, and more.

His work moves between fiction and reflection, returning to presence, openness, and the ordinary moments of being alive.

He writes as a friend.

Alongside his own writing, he has prepared modernised renderings of The Cloud of Unknowing, The Practice of the Presence of God, The Dark Night of the Soul and the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.