John Kamys, is an award winning composer, songwriter, vocalist, and visual artist. Ghost Man is his first book. He has composed numerous scores, one musical, and served a three-year appointment as composer and music director for The Goodman Theatre's annual production of A Christmas Carol. In 1996, he received a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for Best Original Music for the play Cloud Tectonics. He garnered a second nomination, and the award, in 1998, for the play El Paso Blue. A 1999, Best New Artist GLAMA nominee, he has since released six full-length-cd recordings of original songs, performing on four under the pseudonym Jinx Titanic. The Jinx Titanic recordings, have received three OMA nominations and the 2004 OMA for Outstanding Production. In the realm of visual arts, he is recognized for his highly conceptual monochromatic color-field paintings. John Kamys is a Graduate of DePaul University. He lives in Chicago.