Lora Johnson is an American author best known for the novel Ice. She has written several critically acclaimed and award-winning books. She has written both Christian fiction and science fiction.

Her list of work includes numerous Star Trek reference books including Mr. Scott’s Guide to the Enterprise, the Star Trek:The Next Generation Technical Journal and Worlds of the Federation. She also authored the Star Wars Technical Journal and contributed to the canon of the Star Wars universe. She is an historian of US spaceflights and was a design consultant on HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon mini-series. Recently, she created the Virtual Alamo interactive online exhibit for the University of Texas at Arlington.

After suffering from severe and debilitating stress-related health problems that nearly ended her life, Johnson dropped out of the public eye in 2008 and began gender counseling and hormone replacement therapy. In March of 2009, she transitioned full-time, took on the name of Lora Johnson and shortly thereafter corrected all of her legal documentation to reflect her authentic self.