Criss Jami

Criss Jami (born Christopher James Gilbert) is an American poet, essayist, and existentialist philosopher. He is best known as the author of Healology, Killosophy, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality, Venus in Arms, and Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile.

Criss Jami began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 2005, he moved to Fairfax, Virginia as a philosophy student at George Mason University and became highly influenced by the writings of existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and theologian C. S. Lewis. In 2011, he published Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile and the following year Venus in Arms. He published Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality in 2013. In the beginning of 2015, Jami published Killosophy, and in 2016, Healology.