About Kij Johnson, CSSF Associate Director
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Kij Johnson is an author, editor, publishing production manager, and teacher. She received her B.A. degree in "A Cultural History of England to 1066" from the Paracollege at St. Olaf College in Minnesota in 1982, and has done graduate work in creative writing and literature at the University of Minnesota as well as at KU. Since her first sale in 1987, she has sold dozens of short stories to markets including Amazing Stories, Analog, Asimov’s, Duelist Magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, and SciFiction.com. She won the Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short story of 1994 for her novelette in Asimov’s, “Fox Magic,” and is a current Nebula Award nominee. In 2001, she won the International Association for the Fantastic in the Art’s Crawford Award for best new fantasy novelist of the year, when her novel The Fox Woman was published. Her novel, Fudoki, was a finalist for the 2003 James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the 2004 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and is currently a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Kij was also an author guest of honor for the 2005 SFRA conference in Las Vegas. Her novels include two volumes of the Heian trilogy Love/War/Death: The Fox Woman and Fudoki. She has also co-written with Greg Cox a Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, Dragon's Honor; and an e-book anthology of her short fiction, Tales for the Long Rains, is currently available from Scorpius Digital. She is currently writing a third novel set in Heian Japan; and Kylen, two novels set in Georgian Britain. Johnson taught writing and science-fiction writing at Louisiana State University and at KU, and has lectured on creativity and writing at bookstores and businesses across the country. Since 1994, she has assisted at the CSSF Writers Workshop for Science Fiction, and starting in 2005 teaches the CSSF Novel Writers Workshop. Since 1999, she has taught a series of writing classes at the GenCon Game Fair. In the past twelve years, Kij 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 the Microsoft Reader; and documentation manager at Real Networks. She has also run chain and independent bookstores; worked as a radio announcer and engineer; and edited cryptic crosswords. Kij lives in Seattle, Washington, with three mice. Recently, she took a three-week research trip to Japan and is currently
working on two new novels. Check out her
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