Kij Johnson is the author of The Fox Woman and Fudoki, among other works. Amazing Stories, Analog, Asimov's, Duelist Magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy have all published her short work. She was awarded the Theodore A. For her novelette in Asimov's, Fox Magic, she received the Sturgeon Award for the best short fiction of 1994. She won the Crawford Award for best new fantasy novelist of the year from the International Society for the Weird in the Arts in 2001.

She has lectured on creativity and writing at bookstores and businesses across the country, and has taught writing and science-fiction writing at Louisiana State University and the University of Kansas. She has volunteered at the University of Kansas' Center for the Study of Science Fiction's Writer's Workshop for Science Fiction since 1994. She's been teaching a series of writing workshops at the GenCon Game Fair since 1999. She's worked as a managing editor at Tor Books, a collections and Read More chevron_right

Kij Johnson is the author of The Fox Woman and Fudoki, among other works. Amazing Stories, Analog, Asimov's, Duelist Magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy have all published her short work. She was awarded the Theodore A. For her novelette in Asimov's, Fox Magic, she received the Sturgeon Award for the best short fiction of 1994. She won the Crawford Award for best new fantasy novelist of the year from the International Society for the Weird in the Arts in 2001.

She has lectured on creativity and writing at bookstores and businesses across the country, and has taught writing and science-fiction writing at Louisiana State University and the University of Kansas. She has volunteered at the University of Kansas' Center for the Study of Science Fiction's Writer's Workshop for Science Fiction since 1994. She's been teaching a series of writing workshops at the GenCon Game Fair since 1999. She's worked as a managing editor at Tor Books, a collections and special editions editor at Dark Horse Comics, an editor, continuity manager, and creative director at Wizards of the Coast, and a program manager on the Microsoft Reader in the last 10 years.

She's also worked as a waitress in a strip bar, worked as a radio announcer and engineer, edited cryptic crosswords, and worked as a radio announcer and engineer. She and her husband, writer Chris McKitterick, live in Lawrence, Kansas, with a dog and two cats.