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Alaya Dawn Johnson

March 31, 1982 (age 44)

Birth place: Washington, DC, USA

46 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
February 2005 Serial Shard of Glass (Part 1 of 2) Strange Horizons, 14 February 2005
February 2005 Serial Shard of Glass (Part 2 of 2) Strange Horizons, 21 February 2005
September 2005 52 Short Fiction Third Day Lights Interzone, September-October 2005
October 2007 Short Fiction Among Their Bright Eyes Pseudopod, #058
August 2008 Short Fiction Down the Well Strange Horizons, 4 August 2008
March 2009 30 Short Fiction Far & Deep Interzone, March-April 2009
June 2009 Short Fiction Shard of Glass PodCastle, #56
September 2009 Serial The Yeast of Eire (Part 1 of 2) Strange Horizons, 7 September 2009
September 2009 Serial The Yeast of Eire (Part 2 of 2) Strange Horizons, 14 September 2009
October 2009 Short Fiction A Song to Greet the Sun Fantasy Magazine, October 2009
August 2010 Interview Even the Best Stories Have Flaws: Inside Altered Fluid Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2010
August 2010 21 Review Racing the Dark Locus, #595 August 2010
August 2010 21 Review The Burning City Locus, #595 August 2010
March 2011 66 Interview Alaya Dawn Johnson: Dreaming Stories Locus, #602 March 2011
April 2011 Review Racing the Dark Strange Horizons, 11 April 2011
April 2011 Review The Burning City Strange Horizons, 11 April 2011
June 2011 Short Fiction A Prince of Thirteen Days Fantasy Magazine, June 2011
June 2011 Interview Author Spotlight: Alaya Dawn Johnson Fantasy Magazine, June 2011
June 2011 7 Short Fiction Their Changing Bodies Subterranean Online, Summer 2011
April 2012 Short Fiction The Inconstant Moon Tor.com, April 4, 2012
January 2013 10 Short Fiction They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2013
August 2013 |5 Interview Interview: Alaya Dawn Johnson Lightspeed, August 2013
August 2013 25 Review The Summer Prince Locus, #631 August 2013
October 2013 |12 Interview Author Spotlight: Alaya Dawn Johnson (Nightmare Magazine, October 2013) Nightmare Magazine, October 2013
October 2013 |5 Short Fiction The Score Nightmare Magazine, October 2013
July 2014 231 Short Fiction A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August 2014
January 2015 17 Review Love Is the Drug Locus, #648 January 2015
April 2015 25 Review Love Is the Drug Locus, #651 April 2015
November 2015 |7 Short Fiction Love Will Tear Us Apart Uncanny Magazine, November-December 2015
January 2017 |9.1 Review Wicked City Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, January-February 2017
March 2017 19|19.3 Review Tremontaine Locus, #674 March 2017
March 2018 203 Review Tremontaine Asimov's Science Fiction, March-April 2018
June 2020 |10 Short Fiction Trouble the Saints (excerpt) Lightspeed, June 2020
July 2020 |17 Interview Interview: Alaya Dawn Johnson Lightspeed, July 2020
July 2020 |12 Review Trouble the Saints Lightspeed, July 2020
August 2020 |10.3 Review Trouble the Saints Lightspeed, August 2020
September 2020 18 Essay Children's Books / Black Boy Superpowers The New York Times Book Review, September 20, 2020
September 2020 18|18.1 Review Ikenga The New York Times Book Review, September 20, 2020
November 2020 36 Short Fiction The Mirages Asimov's Science Fiction, November-December 2020
November 2020 76 Review Trouble the Saints Galaxy's Edge, November 2020
May 2021 204 Review Reconstruction: Stories Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2021
May 2021 203 Review Trouble the Saints Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2021
March 2024 46 Short Fiction A Brief Oral History of the El Zopilote Dock Clarkesworld, March 2024
January 2025 Short Fiction What I Saw Before the War Reactor, January 22, 2025
September 2025 |1 Short Fiction The Shadow on the Nest Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2025
October 2025 |3 Interview Interview: Alaya Dawn Johnson Uncanny Podcast, 7 October 2025

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2011 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Their Changing Bodies Nominee
2011 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Love Will Tear Us Apart Nominee
2013 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF The Summer Prince Nominee
2014 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Andre Norton Award The Summer Prince Nominee
2014 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Best Novel The Summer Prince Nominee
2014 Locus Poll Award Best Young Adult Book The Summer Prince Finalist
2014 Nebula Award Novelette They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass Nominee
2014 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass Nominee
2015 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Andre Norton Award Love Is the Drug Winner
2015 Hugo Award Best Novelette A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i Nominee
2015 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i Nominee
2015 Locus Poll Award Best Young Adult Book Love Is the Drug Nominee
2015 Nebula Award Novelette A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai'i Winner
2017 Locus Poll Award Best Anthology Tremontaine: Season One Volume One Nominee
2017 Locus Poll Award Best Anthology Tremontaine: Season One Volume Two Nominee
2018 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Best Novel Tremontaine Nominee
2021 Locus Poll Award Best Fantasy Novel Trouble the Saints Nominee
2021 World Fantasy Award Best Novel Trouble the Saints Winner
2022 Ignyte Award Best Anthology/Collected Works Reconstruction Nominee
2022 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Reconstruction Nominee
2023 British Science Fiction Award Best Book for Younger Readers The Library of Broken Worlds Winner
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette The Witch Is Not the Monster Nominee
2024 Locus Poll Award Best Young Adult Book The Library of Broken Worlds Finalist
2024 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book Best Young Adult Book The Library of Broken Worlds Nominee
2024 The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction The Library of Broken Worlds Nominee
2025 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette A Brief Oral History of the El Zopilote Dock Nominee

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