Tenea D. Johnson

Titles:

Anthologies

• 2013. Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction

Collections

• 2008. Starting Friction
• 2020. Blueprints for Better Worlds
• 2021. Broken Fevers

Essays

• 2013. Introduction (Heiresses of Russ 2013)

Interviews

• Unknown. Interview: Short Fictioneers

Novels

• 2011. Smoketown
• 2011. R/evolution
• 2019. Evolution

Poems

• 2008. Akilah's First War
• 2008. At dusk, fireflies turn the woods into a glittering city
• 2008. Edges
• 2008. Gentility
• 2008. In all the city, an oval of face
• 2008. Jolene, Nannette and the Moon
• 2008. Lopsided World
• 2008. My Mother, Verbatim
• 2008. My Nanny's House
• 2008. Passport to Hell
• 2008. Pious Pitch
• 2008. Plot of Messiahs
• 2008. Remember Me Wonderful
• 2008. Something for the Signifiers
• 2008. Still As a Statue Standing on That Stoop
• 2008. Sweet Air
• 2008. Sweet Names for Roses
• 2008. Sweet Spot
• 2008. The Life Cycle of Dust
• 2008. The Optimism of Physics
• 2008. The Water Has Pushed Through
• 2008. Though they would not say what they slought
• 2008. Undertow
• 2008. Why Nigger Is Still an Insult
• 2008. Wolf Years
• 2017. More's the Pity
• 2017. Sweet Jesus in the Corner

Reviews

• Unknown. Broken Fevers

Short Fiction

• Unknown. The Swell of the Cicadas
• Unknown. The Taken
• 2003. Deep Night
• 2008. Release in A Minor
• 2011. How the Carters Got Their Name
• 2011. Live Forevers
• 2012. Only Then Can I Sleep
• 2014. Sugar Hill
• 2015. Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets
• 2017. Foundling
• 2020. Afterworld—31,282
• 2020. Beast—2
• 2020. Continuum—44
• 2020. Forth, the Wicked, Lovely Lie—5,781
• 2020. H748-K—Undetermined
• 2020. Ours—34,437
• 2021. Burn
• 2021. Publishable Regrets
• 2021. The Hell You Say
• 2021. Up Jumped the Devil
• 2021. Wake

Awards

Genres/Themes:

• science fiction (3 books)
• lesbian (1 book)
• genetic engineering (1 book)