Kij Johnson

Life and career

Selected awards and nominations

Hugo Award

• Winner, Novella. “The Man Who Bridged the Mist.”
• Finalist, Novella. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe.
• Finalist, Short Story. “Mantis Wives.”
• Finalist, Short Story. “Ponies.”
• Finalist, Short Story. “Spar.”
• Finalist, Short Story. “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss."

  Nebula Award

• Winner, Novella. “The Man Who Bridged the Mist.”
• Winner, Short Story. “Ponies.”
• Winner, Short Story. “Spar.”
• Finalist, Novella. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe.
• Finalist, Short Story. “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss.”
• Finalist, Novelette. “The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park after the Change.”

  World Fantasy Award

• Winner, Novella. The Privilege of the Happy Ending.
• Winner, Long Fiction. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe.
• Winner, Short Fiction. “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss.”
• Finalist, Collection. At the Mouth of the Rver of Bees: Stories.
• Finalist, Short Fiction. “Ponies.”
• Finalist, Novelette. “The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park after the Change.”
• Finalist, Novel. Fudoki.

  William L. Crawford Fantasy Award

• Winner. The Fox Woman.

  Theodore A. Sturgeon Award

• Winner. “Fox Magic.”

  Shirley Jackson Award

• Finalist, Novella. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe.

  James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award

• Short list. Fudoki.
• Long list. “Schrödinger's Cathouse.”

  Selected published works

Books

• Dragon's Honor. With Greg Cox. New York: Pocket Books, 1996. Print. Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• * . Munich: Heyne, 1997. Print.
• The Fox Woman. New York: Tor Books, 2000. Print and ebook.
• * Munich: Piper Verlag, 2007. Print .
• * Budapest: Torii Könyvkiadó, 2008. Print.
• Tales for the Long Rains. Seattle: Scorpius Digital, 2001. Ebook. Short story collection.
• Fudoki. New York: Tor Books, 2003. Print and ebook.
• Las Chicas Míthicas/Myth Girls. Medellín: Proyecto Liquído, 2010. Print. Bilingual art book.
• At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories. Easthampton : Small Beer Press, 2012. Print and ebook.
• Pinselstriche auf glattem Reispapier . Berlin: Golkonda, 2014. Print. Short story collection.
• 霧に橋を架ける . Tokyo: Tokyo Sogensha, 2014. Print.
• Un pont sur la brume . Saint Mammès: Le Bélial, 2016. Print. Series: Une heure-lumière.
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe. New York: Tor Books, 2016. Print and ebook.
• * Asheville: Talking Book, 2017. Audiobook.
• * Saint Mammès: Le Bélial, 2018. Print.
• * Milan: Edizione Hypnos, 2018. Print. Series: Visioni.
• * Istanbul: Ithaki, in press. Print.
• * Budapest: Fumax Kiadó, in press. Print.
• * Science Fiction World, Aug 2018. Print.
• The River Bank. Easthampton: Small Beer Press, 2017. Print and ebook.
• * Asheville: Talking Book,  2017. Audiobook.

  Short stories

• "Roadkill"
• "FERATA"
• "Wolf Trapping"
• "Solving the Homeless Problem"
• "Hera's Madness"
• "I my "
• "Ursula Redux"
• "Canine Intervention"
• "Questing"
• "Last Dance at Dante's"
• "The Emperor's New Prose"
• “Schrödinger's Cathouse.”
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• “Fox Magic.”
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• “The Renaissance Fair.”
• “Myths”/“Myth Girls.”
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• “What Dogs Hunt in their Dreams.”
• “The Heart of a Minotaur.”
• “The Knife's Edge.”
• “Old Wars.”
• “Crovax's Tale.”
• “Chenting, in the Land of the Dead.”
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• “The Horse Raiders.”
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• “The Snow Wife.”
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• “The Knife Birds.”
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• “Dia Chjerman's Tale”/“Dia Chjerman's Tale: The Delmoni Atrocity.”
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• “At the Mouth of the River of Bees”
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• “The Empress Jingū Fishes.”
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• “Elfrithe's Ghost.”
• “Coney World.”
• “The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change.”
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• “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss.”
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• “Wife Reincarnated as a Solitaire—Exposition on the Flaws in my Spouse's Character—The Nature of the Bird—The Possible Causes—Her Final Disposition.”
• “The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles.”
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• “Spar.”
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• “Names for Water.”
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• “Ponies.”
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• “The Man Who Bridged the Mist.”
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• “Story Kit.”
• “The Bitey Cat.”
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• “Mantis Wives.”
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• “I Wrote His Number on the Back of my Hand But It Washed Off.”
• “Spar.”
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• “Coyote Invents the Land of the Dead.”  
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• “Tool-Using Mimics.”
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• “The Privilege of the Happy Ending.”

  Poetry

• “Why She Howls: A Coyote Love Story.”
• “Why I Don't Brush My Teeth Anymore.”
• “bitter and dark.”
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• “cardboard boxes in rain.”

  Other published works

• Essay: “Deciding to Live.”
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• Essay: “The Care and Feeding of Authors.”
• Essay: “The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish.”
• Essay: “Feel Things Out.”
• Review essay: “The Vorrh by B. Catling: A Forest in Which to Grow Fancies.”
• Editorial.
• Podcast: “Kij Johnson on Scale and Complexity.”
• Podcast: “Kij Johnson on Choosing and Prioritizing Descriptive Detail.”
• Podcast: “Kij Johnson on Description.”
• Essay: “Writing Women into The Wind in the Willows Revitalises the Canon.”

  Edited

• Nebula Awards Showcase 2014, 2014