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Kij Johnson

(b.1960)

Kij Johnson is a former managing editor for Wizards of the Coast and a researcher for the Microsoft Corporation. She now writes full-time and is at work on the next book set in this mystical Japan. She resides in Kansas.

Awards: WFA (2019), Nebula (2012), Hugo (2012), Sturgeon (1994) see all

Genres: Science Fiction

Series

Fox Woman
1. The Fox Woman (2000)
2. Fudoki (2003)

Novels

The River Bank (2017)

Collections

   Tales for the Long Rains (2001)
   At the Mouth of the River of Bees (2012)
   Reimagining Lovecraft (2017) (with others)
   The Privilege of the Happy Ending (2023)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Man Who Bridged the Mist (2012)
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (2016)

Series contributed to

Star Trek : The Next Generation
38. Dragon's Honor (1996) (with Greg Cox)

Tor.Com Original
The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles (2011)
Ponies (2011)

Nebula Award Stories
48. Nebula Awards Showcase 2014 (2014)

Books containing stories by Kij Johnson

The Mad Butterfly's Ball (2024)
edited by
Preston Grassmann and Chris Kelso

Body Shocks (2021)
Extreme Tales of Body Horror
edited by
Ellen Datlow

Clarkesworld Year Twelve: Volume One (2021)
(Clarkesworld Anthology, book 12)
edited by
Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace

More books

Awards

	2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella : The Privilege of the Happy Ending
	2012 Nebula Award for Best Novella : The Man Who Bridged the Mist
	2012 Hugo Award for Best Novella : The Man Who Bridged the Mist
	2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : Ponies
	2010 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : Spar
	2009 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
	1994 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award : Fox Magic

Award nominations

	2017 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
	2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
	2017 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
	2017 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
	2017 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
	2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : At the Mouth of the River of Bees
	2013 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : At the Mouth of the River of Bees
	2013 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Mantis Wives
	2012 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Man Who Bridged the Mist
	2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Ponies
	2011 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Ponies
	2010 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Spar
	2010 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Spar
	2009 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
	2009 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
	2008 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change
	2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change
	2008 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change
	2004 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Fudoki
	2004 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : Fudoki

Kij Johnson recommends

Smothermoss (2024)
Alisa Alering
"Smothermoss is rich, strange, and beautiful, simultaneously eerie and so very honest. An exciting first novel."

Neom (2022)
(Central Station)
Lavie Tidhar
"Yet again, Lavie Tidhar's future world of Neom is exciting and distinctive, his characters complex and fascinating, and his themes powerful and thought-provoking. [Tidhar] is the best sort of science fiction."

Nothing But Blackened Teeth (2021)
Cassandra Khaw
"Khaw is always compulsively readable. This was a wonderful haunted house story, modern characterizations in compelling tension with a lyrically beautiful ancient Japanese residence."

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