Micaiah Johnson

Micaiah Johnson’s novel The Space Between Worlds is the winner of the 2021 Compton Crook Award. Micaiah was raised in California’s Mojave Desert surrounded by trees named Joshua and women who told stories. She received her Bachelor of Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Riverside, and her Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Rutgers University–Camden. Her debut novel, The Space Between Worlds, from Hodder in the UK and Crown in the US, was a Sunday Times best seller, New York Times Editor's Choice, Goodreads Best Science Fiction of 2020 finalist, and listed as listed as one of NPR's Best Books of the Last Decade, as well as Best Book of 2020. She now studies American literature at Vanderbilt University, where she focuses on critical race theory and automatons. Website: micaiahjohnson.com.