Alaya Dawn Johnson

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

Alaya Dawn Johnson
Johnson in 2013
Born1982 (age 38–39)
Washington DC
OccupationWriter
EducationColumbia University (BA)
Period2007–present
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
Notable worksThe Summer Prince
The Spirit Binders'
Website
alayadawnjohnson.com

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][10] Johnson lives in New York City.[9]

Awards and honors
  • Andre Norton Award Winner, Best Young Adult Novel for "Love Is a Drug," 2015[11]
  • Nebula Award Winner, Best Novelette for "A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i," 2015[11]
  • Nebula Award Nominee, Best Novelette for "They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass," 2013[12]
  • Andre Norton Award Nominee for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy for The Summer Prince, 2013[12]
  • National Book Award Longlist, Young People's Literature for The Summer Prince, 2013[13]
  • GLBTRT Top Ten Rainbow List for The Summer Prince, 2014[14]
  • Junior Library Guild selection for The Summer Prince, Spring 2013.[15]
  • YALSA nominee for their BFYA list for The Summer Prince, 2013.[15]
  • Finalist for the 2011 Carl Brandon Society Parallax award for the novel Moonshine.[15]
  • Finalist for the 2011 Carl Brandon Society Kindred award for the novel The Burning City.[15]
  • Top Ten finalist for the 2010 Million Writers Award for the short story "A Song to Greet the Sun."[15]
  • Winner of the 2008 Gulliver Travel Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation.[15]
  • Finalist for the 2006 Carl Brandon Society Parallax award for the short story "Shard of Glass."[15]

Bibliography
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Novels
  • The Summer Prince (2013), ISBN 978-0545417792
  • Love Is the Drug (2014), ISBN 978-0545417815
  • Trouble the Saints (2020), ISBN 9781250175342
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
  3. "The Inconstant Moon" (short story) (2012) ISBN 9781466820821

Short fiction
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Shard of Glass 2005 "Shard of Glass Part 1 & 2" Strange Horizons 14 February 2005 , 21 February 2005 Year's Best Fantasy 6 pp. 58-77
Third Day Lights 2005 Interzone, #200 September-October 2005 Year's Best SF 11 pp. 281-308
Among Their Bright Eyes 2006 Fantasy Magazine #5, Winter 2006
Down the Well 2008 Strange Horizons, 4 August 2008
Far & Deep 2009 Interzone, #221 March-April 2009
The Yeast of Eire 2009 Strange Horizons 7 September 2009, 14 September 2009
A Song to Greet the Sun 2009 Fantasy Magazine, October 2009
The Score 2009 Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
Love Will Tear Us Apart 2010 Zombies vs. Unicorns
Their Changing Bodies 2011 Subterranean Online, Summer 2011
They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass 2013 "They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass". Asimov's Science Fiction. Vol. 37 no. 1. January 2013. pp. 10–26.
A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i 2014 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August 2014
A Hundred Thousand Threads 2017 Three Sides of a Heart: Stories About Love Triangles

References
  1. 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. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. 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. Johnson, Alaya Dawn. "About". Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  10. "6 New Books to Read This Fall". Columbia Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  11. "Nebula Award Winners". Retrieved 2015-07-20.
  12. "2013 Nebula Nominees Announced". Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  13. "2013 National Book Award". Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  14. "2014 Rainbow List". Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  15. "Who I Am". Retrieved 2014-02-25.
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