Alaya Dawn Johnson has been recognized for her short fiction and YA novels, winning the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novelette for “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i,” which also appears in THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY (2015), guest edited by Joe Hill. Her debut young adult novel, THE SUMMER PRINCE, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Her follow-up, LOVE IS THE DRUG, won the Andre Norton Award in 2015. A native of Washington, D.C., Johnson is currently based in Oaxaca, having finished her masters degree in Mesoamerican studies at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Books by Alaya Dawn Johnson

Trouble the Saints

by Alaya Dawn Johnson - Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction

Amid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she’s hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything --- not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side --- and history has appeared on her doorstep to threaten the people she keeps in her heart. And so Phyllis will have to make a harrowing choice, before it’s too late. Is there ever enough blood in the world to wash clean generations of injustice?

Feral Youth

by Shaun David Hutchinson, Suzanne Young, Marieke Nijkamp, Robin Talley, Stephanie Kuehn, E. C. Myers, Tim Floreen, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Justina Ireland, and Brandy Colbert - Anthology, Fiction, Mental Health, Young Adult 14+

Love Is the Drug

by Alaya Dawn Johnson - Thriller, Young Adult 12+

The Summer Prince

by Alaya Dawn Johnson - Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult 14+