Alaya Dawn Johnson

Alaya Dawn Johnson is the author of seven novels for adults and young adults. Her most recent novel for adults is Trouble the Saints , winner of the 2021 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Her young adult novel The Summer Prince was longlisted for the National Book Award, and Love Is the Drug won the Norton Award. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She lives in Mexico, where she received a master's degree...See more

Alaya Dawn Johnson is the author of seven novels for adults and young adults. Her most recent novel for adults is Trouble the Saints , winner of the 2021 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Her young adult novel The Summer Prince was longlisted for the National Book Award, and Love Is the Drug won the Norton Award. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. She lives in Mexico, where she received a master's degree with honors in Mesoamerican Studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, for her thesis on pre-Columbian fermented food and its role in the religious-agricultural calendar. See less