September 6, 2023
Author Kij Johnson to read on Friday, Sept. 8
On Friday, Sept. 8, author Kij Johnson will read from her work at 3:30 p.m. in the K-State Student Union's Wildcat Chamber with concurrent streaming on Zoom.
The event is free and open to the public. For access to the livestream, register for the link here.
Johnson is a writer of speculative and experimental short fiction and novels. She has won the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, as well as the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and others. In 2013, she gave the inaugural Tolkien Lecture at Oxford University. Since then, she has been a guest of honor at conferences and conventions in Sweden, France, Iceland and the United States.
Before entering academia, Johnson worked in New York for Tor Books, Dark Horse Comics, Dark Horse Wizards of the Coast/TSR, Microsoft and RealNetworks, publishing comic books, graphic novels, role-playing video games, trading card games and technical writing/user communications.
Johnson has taught creative writing workshops and seminars as a guest writer for gaming conventions and residential workshops and as a writer in residence for Furman University.
She currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with a cat, Jurat, and serves as an associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Kansas.
"I'm so glad Kij Johnson is visiting this semester. We have so many students working in science fiction and speculative worlds, and Johnson is able to blend a fantastic world-building imagination with characters full of intelligence and heart," said Traci Brimhall, professor of English and director of the program in creative writing.
For more information about Johnson's work, visit her website.
The reading is sponsored by the English department in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Student Government Association's Fine Arts fees.