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Alaya Dawn Johnson

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Forthcoming:

Announcements coming soon!

Published:

Short story collection: Reconstruction. Small Beer Press, January 2021.

Short story: “The Mirages.” Asimov’s, Nov/Dec 2021.

Personal Essay: “Volviéndome.” In Come On In, edited by Adi Alsaid. Inkwell, October 2020.

Short Story: “The Rules of the Land.” In A Phoenix Must First Burn, edited by Patrice Caldwell. Viking, March 2020.

Novel: Trouble the Saints. Tor Books, July 2020.

Short Story: “A Hundred Thousand Threads.” In Three Sides of a Heart, edited by Natalie C. Parker. HarperTeen, December 2017.

Short Story: “The Subjunctive.” In Feral Youth, edited by Shaun David Hutchinson. Simon Pulse, September 2017.

Personal Essay: “Letter to Octavia Butler” in Luminescent Threads, edited by Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal. Twelfth Planet Press, August 2017.

Novel (collective): Tremontaine, by Ellen Kushner, Malinda Lo, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Joel Derfner, Racheline Maltese, Patty Bryant & Paul Witcover. Saga Press, May 2017.

Novel: Love Is the Drug. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, October 2014. Winner of the 2015 Nebula (Andre Norton) award.

Short Story: “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i.” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2014. Winner of the 2015 Nebula Award for novella.

Novel: The Summer Prince. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, March 2013.

Short Story: “They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass.” Asimov’s Science Fiction, January 2013.

Novel: Wicked City. Thomas Dunne, April 2012 (a Zephyr Hollis novel, sequel to Moonshine).

Short Story/Novelette: “The Inconstant Moon.” Tor.com. April 4 2012 (a Zephyr Hollis novelette, prequel to Moonshine. Now available on Amazon!)

Short Story: “Their Changing Bodies.” Subterranean Magazine. Summer 2011 issue (special YA edition, edited by Gwenda Bond).

Short Story: “A Prince of Thirteen Days.” In Welcome to Bordertown (anthology) edited by Ellen Kushner and Holly Black, May 2011. (Reprinted in Fantasy Magazine, May 2011).

Novel: The Burning City. (Book 2 of The Spirit Binders). Agate Publishing, May 2010.

Novel: Moonshine. Thomas Dunne, May 2010.

Novel: “Detective Frankenstein“. Graphic Universe (Lerner) in March 2011.

Short Story: “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” In Zombies vs Unicorns (anthology) edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier, September 2010.

Short Story: “The Yeast of Eire.” Strange Horizons, September 2009.

Short Story: “The Score.” In Interfictions 2 (anthology), Fall 2009.

Short Story: “A Song to Greet the Sun.” Fantasy Magazine, Fall 2009. (Part of the winning submission package for the Speculative Literature Foundation‘s Gulliver Travel Grant).

Short Story: “Far and Deep.” Interzone #221, March/April 2009.

Novel: “The Goblin King“. Graphic Universe (Lerner) in February 2009.

Short Story: “Down the Well” in Strange Horizons, August 2008.

Novel: Racing the Dark. (Book 1 of The Spirit Binders). Agate Publishing, October 2007.

Novella: “Shard of Glass” in Strange Horizons, February 2005. Reprinted in Year’s Best Fantasy #6, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Shortlisted for the Carl Brandon Society Parallax award.

Short Story: “Third Day Lights” in Interzone issue #200, September/October 2005. Reprinted in Year’s Best SF #11, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

Short Story: “Among Their Bright Eyes” in Fantasy Magazine issue #4, 2006.

Short story: “Who Ever Loved” in Arabella Magazine, December 2004

Poem: “Good for Hanging” in Chizine, Fall 2004. Honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #18

Article: The Revenant of Tokyo Bay: Godzilla and the Japanese Ghost in The Internet Review of Science Fiction, March 2004.

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Upcoming events

Note: All event times are EDT unless otherwise noted!

February 3, 2021, 6pm: Moderating a debut author panel for Forge books! Moderator Alaya Dawn Johnson (Trouble the Saints) is chatting with Sarah Adlahaka (She Wouldn’t Change a Thing), Julie Carrick Dalton (Waiting for the Night Song), and Aggie Thompson (I Don’t Forgive You) about their debut novels, their writing processes, what they have learned on their publishing journey so far, and everything in between! You’ll want to tune into Crowdcast to ask any questions you may have about their books or their writing journeys. Sign up here!

February 11-13, 2021: GOH for Life, the Universe and Everything (virtual online event). I’m participating in multiple panels as well as a featured interview and keynote presentation, so please check it out!

February 15, 2021, all day: Reddit AMA (www.reddit.com/r/fantasy), in support of the Read for Pixels campaign.

March 5, 2021, 8.30 pm: Read for Pixels campaign to end violence against women. YouTube livestream will be here.

Watch this space for more appearances as they’re confirmed– I have several in the works, but the dates and times still need to be worked out.

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