Kathe Koja is an American writer who is known for speculative fiction for adults, but over the past few years she has turned to writing young adult novels. She has also written short stories and most of them along with her novels 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. "Some of the keenest pleasures in fiction come from meeting the characters who seem to be moving sideways between the world constructed for them on the page by the writer and the more lasting, more ephemeral world of the readers’ continued imagination."
One of the short stories mentioned in the book "The New Weird", edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer is “The Neglected Garden”. It is a breakup story – but it’s a breakup unlike any you’ve read about before, as a woman responds to being kicked to the curb by crucifying herself on her ex’s backyard fence. Not only will she not leave, she won’t even move – not so much as batting an eyelash.
To read an interview with Kathe, please click on the link below.
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