Micaiah Johnson is a Brooklyn-based author and scholar. On her mother’s side, she is a first generation high school graduate. Her debut novel The Space Between Worlds won the Compton Crook and Carl Brandon Awards and was an Editors’ Choice at The New York Times. NPR named it one of best books of 2020 and one of the best science fiction books of the last decade. Her follow-up novel, Those Beyond the Wall, was named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2024 and was nominated for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize.

In her academic life, she studies race, technology, and death — both in centuries past and in our present moment of the Sixth Great Extinction. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University.

She can be found on Instagram @micaiahthewriter or on Bluesky @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social