In 2011 Fourth Estate published her historical novel, The Secret Fate of Mary Watson.
[2] Since then, she has written a three-part series of novels titled, The Ripper's Net in 2014–15.
[3] Johnson has won the Wesley Michel Wright Prize twice, in 2000 for Nomadic[4] and in 2013 for Stone Scar Air Water.
[6] She won the 2001 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize for "My Dressmaking Aunt"[7] and the Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize for "The African Spider Cures" the following year.
[10] At the 2007 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards she won the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry for her verse novel, Jack.