Kathe Koja

Kathe Koja (born 1960) is an American writer. She was initially known for her intense speculative fiction for adults, but over the past few years has turned to writing young adult novels.

Koja is also a prolific author of short stories, including many in collaboration with Barry N. Malzberg. Most of her short fiction remains uncollected. Koja's novels and short stories frequently concern characters who have been in some way marginalized by society, often focusing on the transcendence and/or disintegration which proceeds this social isolation (as in The Cipher, Bad Brain, "Teratisms," The Blue Mirror, etc.). Koja won the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award for her first novel The Cipher, and a Deathrealm Award for Strange Angels. Her prose has been described as "stunning".

She lives near Detroit, Michigan, and is married to the illustrator Rick Lieder, who often does her book jackets.

Biography

Koja was born in Detroit, the second of two sisters. She began writing when very young, but only became serious about it after attending a Clarion workshop.

Koja lives near Detroit, Michigan, and is married to the illustrator Rick Lieder, who often does her book jackets. They have one son.

Awards

Koja won the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award for her first novel The Cipher, which was also nominated for the Philip K Dick Award. She also won a Deathrealm Award for Strange Angels.

Bibliography

Adult

• The Cipher (1991)
• Bad Brains (1992)
• Skin (1993)
• Strange Angels (1994)
• Kink (1996)
• Extremities (1997) (collection)
  • "Arrangement for Invisible Voices"
  • "The Neglected Garden"
  • "Bird Superior"
  • "Illusions in Belief"
  • "Reckoning"
  • "The Company of Storms"
  • "Teratisms"
  • Angels in Love"
  • "Waking the Prince"
  • "Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard"
  • "Lady Lazarus"
  • "The Disquieting Muse"
  • "Queen of Angels"
  • "Jubilee"
  • "Pas de Deux"
  • "Bondange"

Young adult

• straydog (2002)
• Buddha Boy (2003)
• The Blue Mirror (2004)
• Talk (2005)
• Going Under (2006)
• Kissing the Bee (2007)
• Headlong (2008)

Short Stories Written with Barry N. Malzberg

• "The High Ground" (1993)
• "Rex Tremandae, Majestatis" (1993)
• "The Timbrel Sound of Darkness" (1993)
• "The Careful Geometry of Love" (1994)
• "In the Greenhouse" (1994)
• "Modern Romance" (1994)
• "Literary Lives" (1995)
• "Buyer's Remorse (1995)
• "The Known Inequities of Love" (1995)
• "Mysterious Elisions, Riotous Thrusts" (1995)
• "Three Portraits from Heisenberg" (1995)
• "The Unchained" (1995)
• "The Witches of Delight" (1995)
• "Girl's Night Out" (1995)
• "Orleans, Rheims, Friction: Fire" (1997)

External links

• Author's Homepage
• http://www.sfsite.com/11b/ex45.htm Review of Extremities at SFSite.com, 1998]

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