Alaya Dawn Johnson

Alaya Dawn Johnson (born 1982) () is an American writer of speculative fiction.
Career.
Apart from short fiction, Johnson has published two urban fantasy novels about "vampire suffragette" Zephyr Hollis set in an alternate 1920s New York City, and two novels set on islands resembling pre-modern Polynesia where people have learned to bind elemental powers to their commands. Her 2013 debut in the young adult fiction sector, the standalone novel "The Summer Prince", is set on a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk Brazilian arcology ruled by a nanotech-empowered matriarchy. "Love Is the Drug", her 2014 stand-alone young adult novel, is set in Washington, D.C. and follows a prep-school student whose memory loss may be connected to a burgeoning global influenza pandemic.
Personal life.
Johnson was born in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Columbia University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Languages and Cultures. Johnson lives in New York City.