Dear Echo

Voices of Resilience




Welcome to Dear Echo!

So I am going to explain my real name and then I am going to tell you why asking this question is the wrong thing to do, of me or of anyone who has a different name than the one they were given at birth. When I was born, my parents named me Katherine Irenae Johnson. Family legend has it that …

Since her first sale in 1987, Kij Johnson has sold dozens of short stories to markets including Amazing Stories, Analog, Asimov’s, Duelist Magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy. She won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short story of 1994 for her novelette in Asimov’s, “Fox Magic.” In 2001, she won the International Association for the Fantastic in the Art’s Crawford Award for best new fantasy novelist of the year.