About
Since her first sale in 1987, Kij Johnson has sold dozens of short stories to markets including Amazing Stories, Analog, Asimov's, Duelist Magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy. She won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short story of 1994 for her novelette in Asimov's, "Fox Magic." In 2001, she won the International Association for the Fantastic in the Art's Crawford Award for best new fantasy novelist of the year. Full text of several of her stories and poems is available here. Her short story "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change" was placed on the final ballot for the 2007 Nebula award and the 2007 World Fantasy award, and it was a nominee for the Sturgeon and Hugo awards; full text is available here.
Her novels include two volumes of the Heian trilogy Love/War/Death: The Fox Woman and Fudoki. She's also co-written with Greg Cox a Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, Dragon's Honor. She is currently researching a third novel set in Heian Japan; and Kylen, two novels set in Georgian Britain.
She taught writing and science fiction writing at Louisiana State University and at the University of Kansas, and she has lectured on creativity and writing at bookstores and businesses across the country. Since 1994, she has assisted at James Gunn's Science Fiction Writer's Workshop, hosted by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. Starting in 2003, Kij also teaches the Center's Science Fiction & Fantasy Novel Writing Workshop. From 1999 - 2004, she taught a series of writing classes at the GenCon Game Fair.
In the past ten years, she has worked as managing editor at Tor Books; collections and special editions editor for Dark Horse Comics; editor, continuity manager, and creative director for Wizards of the Coast; program manager on Microsoft Reader; and is currently managing editor of user communications at Real Networks. She has also run chain and independent bookstores, worked as a radio announcer and engineer, edited cryptic crosswords, and waitressed in a strip bar.
She divides her time between the Midwest and the West Coast.