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Kathe Koja

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Detroit, The United States

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Contemporary, Science Fiction, Gay and Lesbian

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Kathe Koja is a writer, director and independent producer of live and virtual events. Her work combines and plays with genres, from horror to YA to historical to weird, in books like THE CIPHER, VELOCITIES, BUDDHA BOY, UNDER THE POPPY, and CATHERINE THE GHOST.

Her ongoing project is the world of DARK FACTORY https://darkfactory.club/ continuing in DARK PARK, with DARK MATTER coming out in December 2025.

She's a Detroit native, animal rights supporter, supporter of democracy, and huge fan of Emily Bronte. ...more

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	The Cipher 3.51 avg rating — 8,649 ratings — published 1991 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skin 3.79 avg rating — 1,324 ratings — published 1993 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Buddha Boy 3.55 avg rating — 1,279 ratings — published 2003 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blue Mirror 3.79 avg rating — 727 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad Brains 3.77 avg rating — 698 ratings — published 1992 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Poppy (Under the Poppy, #1) 3.46 avg rating — 583 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kissing the Bee 3.71 avg rating — 450 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Angels 3.76 avg rating — 403 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Velocities 3.68 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Straydog 3.88 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Under the Poppy (3 books)
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Dark Factory (4 books)
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Kathe Koja answered Minerva Weaver's question: Asking as a writer myself: what are the biggest inspirations you draw from in your writing? Any writers you find come through the most in your own work, or real life sources of inspiration? And what, in your opinion, helped you grow the most as a writer? When did you begin to see the greatest improvement in your work? There’s nowhere inspiration isn’t. What you can use depends on what we’re looking to write, where your own radar is pointed. And your own pantheon of writers may, and should, change as your work evolves. What helped me grow as a writer, from the very See Full Answer
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Kathe Koja and 2 other people liked Lori's review of Dark Park: "Kathe's head spinning follow up to Dark Factory, Dark Park sits on the shoulders of filmmaker Sergey as he attempts to track Ari and Felix after the blow up and come down, to get as deep into the 'woo' - the buzz, their celebrity - as he possibly can" Read more of this review »
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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

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“Do you know the concept of karma? It’s kind of like a circle, or cause-and-effect, like a slow-tolling bell you rang maybe a year ago, five years ago, maybe in another lifetime if you believe in that. Karma means that what you do today, and why you do it, makes you who you are forever: as if you were clay, and every thought and action left a mark in that clay, bent it, shaped it, even ruined it… but with karma there are no excuses, no explanations, no I-didn’t-really-mean-it-so-can-I-have-some-more-clay. Karma takes everything you do very, very seriously.”
― Kathe Koja, Buddha Boy

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“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

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Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl (write-in)

2 votes, 15.4%

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1 vote, 7.7%

New Kid by Jerry Craft

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One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

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The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez

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Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja

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Honestly Elliott by Gillian McDunn

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Air by Monica Roe

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Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

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One Year at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks

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No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen

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I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

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Truly, Devious by Maureen Johnson

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