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Timothy Johnson is a writer and editor living outside Washington, D.C., where he recently earned an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. His published writing includes the novels The Pillars of Dawn and Carrier as well as short fiction from Gamut, Haven Speculative, Deracine Magazine, Crystal Lake Publishing, and Inked in Gray Press. He was editor-in-chief of Phoebe Journal of Literature and Art, and in 2021, he was an Alan Cheuse Center Fellow and a Pushcart Award nominee for his story, “I Am Emergent.” He is a member of the Horror Writers Association. Nothing frightens him more than the future, so he writes about it and hopes he is wrong.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 83 ratings · 17 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Carrier 3.62 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fat Zombie: Stories of Unlikely Survivors from the Apocalypse by Paul Mannering (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Kozeniewski (Goodreads Author), Sally McLennan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pillars of Dawn 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fat Zombie: Stories of Unlikely Survivors from the Apocalypse (2015-01-27) by Paul Mannering (Goodreads Author), Martin Livings (Goodreads Author), Jay Wilburn (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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