Alaya Dawn Johnson

Women of color in SF
Characters & works: Protagonists Protagonists (YA) Characters Issues & stereotypes: Black warrior woman ... Dragon lady Casting actors
Writers & other people: Writers Other creators SF people
See also: Female characters Female authors Oppressions & intersections
About the IWOCSF

Alaya Dawn Johnson is a SF writer and poet.

Works

• "Among Their Bright Eyes" (short story, first published in Fantasy Magazine issue #4, 2006)
• "Down the Well" (short story, first published in Strange Horizons, August 2008)
• Racing the Dark (novel, forthcoming from Agate Publishing)
• "Shard of Glass" (novelette, first published 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.)
• "Third Day Lights" (novella, first published in Interzone issue #200, September/October 2005. Reprinted in Year's Best SF #11, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.)
• "Who Ever Loved" (short story, first published in Arabella Magazine, December 2004)

Poetry

• "Good for Hanging" in Chizine, Fall 2004. Honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #18

Criticism and reviews

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

Further reading

• alayadawnjohnson.com