Maya Johnson is an Afrofuturist author and magazine journalist from Long Beach, California. She is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara’s Writing and Literature program and has written for Locavore Lit LA, Laurel Moon, Beyond Thought, Bull Magazine, The 45th Parallel, and WORD Magazine.

As a Black, queer writer she defines politics through interpersonal relationships, focusing on topics of generational trauma, romance, and identity.