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American novelist
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Kara Mia Dalkey
Born1953 (age 70–71)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materFashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
GenreFantasy
SpouseJohn Barnes (divorced 2001)

Kara Mia Dalkey (born 1953) is an American author of young adult fiction and historical fantasy.

Personal life

She was born in Los Angeles and has lived in Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Colorado, and Seattle. Much of her fiction is set in the Heian period of Japan.

She was married to author John Barnes; they divorced in 2001. She is a member of the Pre-Joycean Fellowship and of the Scribblies.

Education

She is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles.

Literary work

Her works include The Sword of Sagamore, Steel Rose, Little Sister and The Nightingale. The latter book is part of Terri Windling's Fairy Tale Series. Her short stories are featured in the Liavek anthologies, Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Firebirds Rising. Liavek was a shared-world series edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly. Ace Books published Liavek and thus many of the Scribblies' first short stories.

Her Water Trilogy is a blend of the Atlantis myth with Arthurian legends.

Her stories "Lady Shobu" and "The Rule of Silence" are part of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer anthologies from Simon & Schuster.

Musical background

She is also a musician and has gigged extensively on electric bass (which she plays left-handed) and harmony vocals, with such bands as Runestone, the Albany Free Traders, and Nate Bucklin and the Ensemble (in Minnesota) and Relic and Voodoo Blue (in Seattle.) At different times she has also played drums, banjo and acoustic guitar. She is a songwriter, but her total output is low, and no CD or other album is in the works.

Bibliography

Sagamore

  • The Curse of Sagamore (1986)
  • The Sword of Sagamore (1989)

Mitsuko

  • Little Sister (1996)
  • The Heavenward Path (1998)

Blood of the Goddess

  1. Goa (1996)
  2. Bijapur (1997)
  3. Bhagavati (1998)

Water Trilogy

  1. Ascension (2002)
  2. Reunion (2002)
  3. Transformation (2002)

Other novels

Short stories

Award nominations

References

  1. "On the Funway - A short visual trip down musical memory lane". Archived from the original on 2007-02-11. Retrieved 2007-02-04. Flyer

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