Kathe Koja





Kathe Koja

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January 01, 1960

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I've been writing since I was very young, just about as soon as I could read. It's more than what I do for a living: writing is who I am, the way I see the world, the way I try to make sense of what I see.

But it wasn't until I attended the Clarion Workshop that I got serious about my writing. At Clarion I met writers, real live writers whose books I had actually read, who read my stories, offered helpful critiques, and most of all, took me seriously as a fellow writer. That changed my life. A few years later, I sold my first novel. Four more novels and a short fiction collection for adults were published in the '90s.

Writing straydog, my first book for young people, ushered me into a world I knew already as a reader. Many of the characters I...more


Average rating: 3.75 · 7,659 ratings · 764 reviews · 58 distinct works
Buddha Boy
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions
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The Blue Mirror
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 296 ratings4 editions
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Kissing the Bee
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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Skin
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions
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The Cipher
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 1991
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Under the Poppy
3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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Straydog
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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Strange Angels
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
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Talk
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Bad Brains
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions
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“To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.”
Kathe Koja, Skin

“Recalling those gone times, old memories lit by the fire of the new, I did not this time wonder how long it would last; I was too smart for that now. Take what you get, and don't think. Of course it could never be that easy, but there were moments, like now, that I could successfully pretend that it was, and I had no inclination to try to peer past those moments. I'm not one who wants to know the future: at the best it spoils the present, with longing or dismay, and at the worst, well. Who really wants to find out how tight the sling is, for your own very personal ass, who wants to know how deep the shit will really be. Not you. Not me either. Because it's rarely bliss saved up, is it, when you finally get there. I'll take my now, waking with a lover's scent on me, around me, take my hopes before they're maybe tragedy; a good morning is a good morning, even if it leads to apocalypse at night.”
Kathe Koja

“I'm just going to jump and say:hey Mom, Dad, I'm gay, What's for dessert?”
Kathe Koja

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