Alaya Dawn Johnson

Alaya Dawn Johnson

Johnson at the Singularity & Co. panel at the 2013 Wizard World New York Experience in Manhattan.
Born 1982
Washington DC
Occupation Writer
Nationality American
Period 2007–present
Genre Science fiction, fantasy
Website
www.alayadawnjohnson.com

Alaya Dawn Johnson (born 1982)[1] is an American writer of speculative fiction.

Career

Apart from short fiction, Johnson has published two urban fantasy novels about "vampire suffragette" Zephyr Hollis set in an alternate 1920s New York City,[2] and two novels set on islands resembling pre-modern Polynesia where people have learned to bind elemental powers to their commands.[3][4] Her 2013 debut in the young-adult fiction sector, the standalone novel The Summer Prince, is set on a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk Brazilian arcology ruled by a nanotech-empowered matriarchy.[5][6] Love Is the Drug, her 2014 stand-alone young adult novel, is set in Washington, D.C. and follows a prep-school student whose memory loss may be connected to a burgeoning global influenza pandemic.[7][8]

Personal life

Johnson was born in Washington, D.C.[1] She graduated from Columbia University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Languages and Cultures.[9] Johnson lives in New York City.[9]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

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Novels

The Spirit Binders series
  1. Racing the Dark (2007), ISBN 193284144X
  2. The Burning City (2010), ISBN 978-1932841459
Zephyr Hollis series
  1. Moonshine (2010), ISBN 0312648065
  2. Wicked City (2012), ISBN 978-0-312-56548-0

Short fiction

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
They shall salt the earth with seeds of glass 2013 "They shall salt the earth with seeds of glass". Asimov's Science Fiction 37 (1): 10–26. January 2013. 

References

  1. 1 2 Alaya Dawn Johnson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. "Wicked City". Publishers Weekly. 1 February 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  3. Miller, Faren (21 August 2010). "Faren Miller reviews Alaya Dawn Johnson". Locus magazine. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  4. Kincaid Speller, Maureen (13 April 2011). "Racing the Dark and The Burning City by Alaya Dawn Johnson". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  5. Mayer, Petra (7 March 2013). "Samba, Spiderbots And 'Summer' Love In Far-Future Brazil". NPR. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  6. Dobbs, Michael Ann (15 April 2013). "The Summer Prince takes us to a future Brazil with human sacrifice". io9. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  7. "Love Is The Drug". Kirkus Reviews. 30 June 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  8. Valentine, Genevieve (27 September 2014). "'Love Is the Drug' For A Teen Caught In A Dystopian D.C.". NPR. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  9. 1 2 Johnson, Alaya Dawn. "About". Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  10. 1 2 "Nebula Award Winners". Retrieved 2015-07-20.
  11. 1 2 "2013 Nebula Nominees Announced". Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  12. "2013 National Book Award". Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  13. "2014 Rainbow List". Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Who I Am". Retrieved 2014-02-25.

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