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Author photo. Kathe Koja (left) with Walter Jon Williams, 2005 [credit: Cory Doctorow]

Kathe Koja (left) with Walter Jon Williams, 2005 [credit: Cory Doctorow]

Kathe Koja

Author of The Cipher

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Kathe Koja was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960. Her first novel, The Cipher, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 1992 and the Locus Award. She also won a Deathrealm Award for Strange Angels. Her other adult novels include Bad Brains, Skin, Kink, and Under the Poppy. She also writes young adult novels including Straydog, Buddha Boy, The Blue Mirror, and Going Under. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Cipher… (more)
The Cipher 546 copies, 32 reviews
Buddha Boy 348 copies, 17 reviews
Skin 224 copies, 9 reviews
Under the Poppy 219 copies, 20 reviews
The Blue Mirror 142 copies, 5 reviews
Strange Angels 124 copies, 3 reviews
Bad Brains 119 copies, 2 reviews
Kissing the Bee 118 copies, 3 reviews
Talk 104 copies, 2 reviews
Straydog 100 copies, 4 reviews
Extremities 91 copies, 2 reviews
Kink 77 copies, 1 review
Headlong 62 copies, 6 reviews
Going Under 53 copies, 4 reviews
Snow White, Blood Red (Contributor) 1,696 copies, 15 reviews
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (Contributor) 997 copies, 16 reviews
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (Contributor) 921 copies, 11 reviews
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales (Contributor) 785 copies, 20 reviews
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (Contributor) 750 copies, 19 reviews
The New Weird (Contributor) 504 copies, 13 reviews
American Gothic Tales (Contributor) 426 copies, 5 reviews
Teeth: Vampire Tales (Contributor) 289 copies, 14 reviews
Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold (Contributor) 285 copies, 9 reviews
A Whisper of Blood (Contributor) 251 copies, 2 reviews
Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction (Contributor) 248 copies, 3 reviews
Dark Love (Contributor) 247 copies
Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex (Contributor) 196 copies, 5 reviews
The Dark (Contributor) 174 copies, 4 reviews
Borderlands 3 (Contributor) 148 copies, 2 reviews
Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From the Edge (Contributor) 131 copies, 5 reviews
Alternate Warriors (Contributor) 123 copies, 2 reviews
Little Deaths (Contributor) 121 copies, 1 review
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Dinosaur Fantastic (Contributor) 117 copies, 2 reviews
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Tombs (Contributor) 114 copies, 2 reviews
Book of the Dead 2: Still Dead (Contributor) 112 copies
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Vampire Detectives (Contributor) 86 copies
The Dark of the Woods (Contributor) 85 copies, 1 review
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CYBERSEX (Contributor) 77 copies, 1 review
Wheel of Fortune (Contributor) 73 copies
Blood and Other Cravings (Contributor) 67 copies, 4 reviews
Best New Horror 3 (Contributor) 64 copies
Alternate Tyrants (Contributor) 57 copies, 1 review
Christmas Ghosts (Anthology 27-in-1) (Contributor) 47 copies, 1 review
Universe 2 (Contributor) 42 copies
Amazing Stories: The Anthology (Contributor) 42 copies
Forbidden Acts (Contributor) 42 copies, 1 review
Edited By (Contributor) 38 copies, 3 reviews
Isaac Asimov's Aliens (Contributor) 35 copies
Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep (Contributor) 26 copies
Temporary Walls (Contributor) 16 copies, 1 review
Dark Voices 3 (Contributor) 12 copies
Dark Voices 5 (Contributor) 9 copies
With Wounds Still Wet (Introduction) 9 copies
Dark Voices 6 (Contributor) 5 copies
Clarkesworld: Issue 139 (April 2018) (Contributor) 2 copies, 1 review

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