Alaya Johnson graduated from Columbia University in 2004 with a BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures. She has published The Goblin King , for younger readers, and is working on a fantasy trilogy for older teens called The Spirit Binders . The first book, Racing the Dark , was published in 2007 and the second, The Burning City , was released in April 2010. She also has an unrelated adult 1920s vampire suffragette novel, Moonshine , out in May 2010.