Emma Alice Johnson grows wildflowers and writes. She lives on a farm dedicated to conservation of native plants and endangered insects. Her writing spans horror, sci-fi, bizarro fiction and plain old lit, as well as film and comic book criticism, and nature writing.
Her most recent book for adults is Ghouls Rule: A Celebration of Female Movie Monsters. Her most recent book for kids is Lifting.
She is a two-time Wonderland Book Award-winner for best bizarro fiction. Her work has been selected for inclusion in The Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, and has garnered acclaim from Publisher’s Weekly, Hellnotes, Horror News and more. Her short story, “Five Ways to Kill Your Rapist on a Farm,” was mentioned in the New York Times.
She is an avid zinester and has created a wide variety of zines. The first issue of her punk rock and monsters zine, Freak Tension, was published in 1998 and ran for 15 issues.
In 2015, she founded Weirdpunk Books. In 2018, she turned the press over to Sam Richard, who has turned it into the powerhouse of transgressive fiction that it is today.
Emma’s Wildflower Farm is devoted to the protection of endangered insects through the preservation and proliferation of plants native to Wisconsin. Her farm is on the site of a ghost town and features a historic Victorian farmhouse built in 1893.
When she isn’t planting or writing, she can be found running through the woods with her pet pig, singing to her chickens, lifting weights, listening to old country records, watching B-movies or reading while snuggled with her cats.
Emma Alice Johnson | Author And Zinester | Bizarro, Horror And Science Fiction | LGBTQ 