Visiting Associate Professor
MFA Program
Klapper Hall, Room 703

Personal website: https://alayadawnjohnson.com/ 

Alaya Dawn Johnson is an award-winning author of speculative fiction for adults and young adults. Her most recent adult novel, Trouble the Saints, was the recipient of the World Fantasy Award for best novel. Her short story collection, Reconstruction, was published by Small Beer Press in January 2021. Her latest YA novel, The Library of Broken Worlds, is a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin award.

Check out her newsletter A stranger comes home, where subscribers receive creative non-fiction and the occasional poem about living in Mexico, writing, and surviving trauma.