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Daisy Johnson (born 1990 ) is a British novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, Everything Under, was short-listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.

Biography
Johnson was born in Paignton in 1990 and grew up around Saffon Waldon. She gained her Bachelor's degree in English and Creative Writing from Lancaster University, before studying a Master's degree in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford where she also worked at Blackwell's. While at Oxford, she won the 2014 AM Heath Prize for Fiction while working on her first short story collection, and had short stories published in The Warwick Review and The Boston Review. Shortly after, she won the 2016 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize for What The House Remembers.

In 2015, she won a two book deal with Jonathan Cape for a collection and novel after a publishing auction. That collection, Fen, was published in 2017. It is set in the Fens of England, drawing upon the memories of the area where she grew up. It comprises a set of linked short stories, focusing on the experiences of women and girls in a small town: she describes the collection as liminal and mythic. The collection won the 2017 Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

Johnson followed Fen with her debut novel, Everything Under, in 2018. It focuses the relationship between Gretel, a lexicographer, and her mother, set against a backdrop of the British countryside. Growing up on a canal boat together, they invented a language between them, before her mother abandons her at the age of sixteen, and the novel starts sixteen years later with a phone call. Johnson worked on the novel for around four years and was known as Eggtooth prior to publication.

Everything Under was short-listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, making Johnson the youngest author to be short-listed for the prize.

She currently lives in Oxford. Her favourite writes include Stephen King, Evie Wyld, Helen Oyeyemi and John Burnside, and poets include Robin Robertson and Sharon Olds. She states her Mastermind specialist subjects would be either Stephen King or Buffy The Vampire Slayer and if she had been unsuccessful as a writer, suggests that she would have been a shepherd.

Novels

 * Everything Under (2018), Jonathan Cape

Short Story Collections

 * Fen (2017), Jonathan Cape



Awards

 * 2018: Man Booker Prize, shortlist (Everything Under)
 * 2017: Edge Hill Short Story Prize, winner (Fen)
 * 2017: Sunday Times Short Story Award, longlist (Blood Rites)
 * 2016: Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize, winner (What the House Remembers)
 * 2014: AM Heath Prize for Fiction, winner