John Koenig has spent the last decade building a home in every creative field he can find, working as a graphic designer, video editor, voice actor, illustrator, photographer, director, and writer. He has spent the last six years writing an original dictionary of made-up words, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which fills gaps in the language with hundreds of new terms for emotions, some of which (‘sonder’) have entered the language outright. Business Standard has said "Koenig is a writer to be reckoned with" and stated "The Dictionary is the kind of thing you want to print and bind, and refer to often."