Author Biography and Bibliography

Since her first sale in 1987, Kij Johnson has published three novels and dozens of short stories in markets including Amazing Stories, Analog, Asimov's, Duelist, F&SF, and Realms of Fantasy. She won the Theodore A. Sturgeon 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 Arts' Crawford Award for best new fantasist of the year.

Since 1994, she has assisted at the Writer's Workshop for Science Fiction, hosted by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. Since 1999, she has taught a series of writing classes at the GenCon Game Fair.

In the past fifteen 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; and as a program manager on the Microsoft Reader. 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 lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with her husband, writer Chris McKitterick, a dog, and two cats.

She is currently researching two new novels set in Heian Japan for Tor Books; and Kylen: The Movable City, a two novel sequence set in Georgian Britain, for Bantam.

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Chris McKitterick.