Kathe Koja is an American

United States

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 writer. She was initially known for her intense speculative fiction

Speculative fiction

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 for adults, but over the past few years has turned to writing young adult

Young adult literature

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 novels.

Koja is also a prolific author of short stories

Short Stories

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, including many in collaboration with Barry N. Malzberg

Barry N. Malzberg

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. 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 from this social isolation (as in The Cipher, Bad Brains, "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".

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

Detroit, Michigan

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, 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.

Adult

• The Cipher (1991)
• Bad Brains (1992)
• Skin (1993)
• Strange Angels
  Strange Angels (Kathe Koja novel)
  Strange Angels is a 1994 novel by American author Kathe Koja published by Delacorte Press.-Brief Plot Synopsis:Grant, an industrial photographer between jobs, shares an apartment with his art therapist girlfriend Johnna...
  
  (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"
• Under the Poppy (2010)

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
• Review of Extremities at SFSite.com, 1998