Kristal M. Johnson

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"Unplugged"

• Appeared in MindFlights, Oct. 2008 (read online, order print version)
• Awarded 2nd place, genre category, Writer's Digest 2007 Annual Writing Competition, Dec. 2007.

"Eight-Point-Nine Seconds"

• Received honorable mention, genre category, Writer's Digest 2007 Annual Writing Competition, Dec. 2007.

"The Tressatops Egg"

• Appeared in Dragons, Knights and Angels, Feb. 2007 (read online, order print version).

Kristal Mahealani Johnson received her B.A. in English/Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. In 2002, she left corporate writing life behind to raise two precious boys, and pursue her lifelong dream of writing fiction.

Her short stories have appeared in MindFlights and Dragons, Knights and Angels, and have placed among top winners in the Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition.

Today, she and her husband live in New York with their sons, eight loud guitars, two thunderous drum kits, and two sweet cats in a hurry to hide. She's currently working on a post-apocalyptic novel set in the Hudson River Valley.

• Octavia E. Butler

Favorite books:

Fledgling, Parable of the Sower, The Alienist, The Stand, Swan Song, Crime and Punishment