About Kathe Koja: Kathe Koja is an American writer. She was initially known for her intense speculative fiction for adults, but over the past few years has written young adult novels as well.
I knew that change was coming, the way you know things you can't see, by feeling them; by instinct. The way the bees know everything they know.
I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send them through the fire to a new place. The characters who do not change — most notably Nakota in Cipher, Bibi in Skin, and Lena in Kin...
