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Kara Dalkey


(Kara Mia Dalkey)
USA flag (b.1953)

Kara Mia Dalkey is an American author of young adult fiction and historical fantasy. 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. She is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Design and Marketing in Los Angeles.

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 consequently no CD or other album is presently in the works.
 

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy
 
Series
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Blood of the Goddess
   1. Goa (1996)
   2. Bijapur (1997)
   3. Bhagavati (1998)
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Water
   1. Ascension (2002)
   2. Reunion (2002)
   3. Transformation (2002)
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Novels
   The Nightingale (1988)
   Euryale (1988)
   Little Sister (1996)
   Steel Rose (1997)
   The Heavenward Path (1998)
   Crystal Sage (1999)
   Genpei (2000)
   A Sword Named Sorrow (2021)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Ghost Sword (2009)
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Series contributed to
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Anthologies containing stories by Kara Dalkey
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Firebirds Soaring (2009)
An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction
edited by
Sharyn November
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The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 (2004)
Sex, the Future, and Chocolate Chip Cookies
(James Tiptree Award Anthology, book 1)
edited by
Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy and Debbie Notkin

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Awards
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1989) : The Nightingale


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