Kij Johnson

Kij Johnson is novelist and short-story writer, a winner of the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award (three times), the Sturgeon Award, the Crawford Award, and the French Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. She has worked in book publishing, comics, game publishing, and the tech industry, before settling into teaching creative writing and science fiction/fantasy at the University of Kansas. In the summers, she teaches an intensive novel-writing workshop; attendees have included more than a dozen winners of the same awards she had.