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Occupation
  
Writer

Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Alaya Johnson


Period
  
2007–present

Nationality
  
American

Education
  
Columbia University

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Genre
  
Science fiction, fantasy

Awards
  
Nebula Award for Best Novelette

Books
  
The Summer Prince, Racing the Dark, Wicked City: A Zephyr H, Moonshine: A Novel, The Goblin King

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

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Career

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Apart from short fiction, Johnson has published two urban fantasy novels about "vampire suffragette" Zephyr Hollis set in an alternate 1920s New York City, and two novels set on islands resembling pre-modern Polynesia where people have learned to bind elemental powers to their commands. 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. 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.

Personal life

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

Awards and honors

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

    • References

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