Koja does this because in her personal life and travels, she encounters other writers who use their art as a place of shelter. In Koja’s stories, the characters themselves have a close relationship with art. Koja describes this period of life as a place where change is inevitable and almost anything can happen, and to Koja that is exciting. On writing for young adults, Koja states that she loves the young adult genre for the fact that as an author, she is granted the ability to re-examine that aspect of life, including the highs and lows of adolescence. Editor Jeanne Cavelos published Koja’s novel through the Dell Abyss line. Koja’s first novel, The Cipher, was originally entitled The Funhole. Koja says that this transformative transcendence is explored in each of these novels either through a fundamental change of character experienced by a character, or, through the interaction with an actual presence such as the “funhole” in The Cipher. This theme of transcendence applies to The Cipher, Bad Brains, Strange Angels, Skin, and Kink.

Koja said, in an interview with Dark Echo, “When we will to be more than we are, what do we do? How do we choose what then to become, and how accomplish that becoming? And after transformation - what?”. In regard to her earlier works, Koja says that the fundamental question at the heart of her stories deals with the philosophy of transcendence. Koja's literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series. She began writing when very young, but only became serious about it after attending a Clarion workshop. Koja was born in Detroit, Michigan, the second of two sisters. Her prose has been described as 'stunning'. Koja won the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award for her first novel The Cipher, and a Deathrealm Award for Strange Angels.

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.). Most of her short fiction remains uncollected. Koja has also collaborated with Carter Scholz. Koja is also a prolific author of short stories, including many in collaboration with Barry N.

She was initially known for her intense speculative fiction for adults, but has written young adult novels, the historical fiction Under the Poppy trilogy, and a fictional biography of Christopher Marlowe. Kathe Koja (born 1960) is an American writer. Kathe Koja with Walter Jon Williams in 2005 (photo by Cory Doctorow)

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