In this interview, we chat with Kathe Koja about balancing simultaneous projects, resisting online distractions, raising the literary dead, and so much more.

Kathe Koja writes novels and short fiction, and creates and produces live and virtual events. Her award-winning books include The Cipher, Skin, Buddha Boy, Under The Poppy and Velocities, and she is currently at work on the Dark Factory immersive fiction project including Dark Factory, Dark Park and Dark Matter. Catherine the Ghost is her newest novel.

You can find her at kathekoja.com and on Instagram, Facebook and Threads.

Books and plays mentioned in this episode: 

• Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin
• Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The Mouse and His Child; Riddley Walker – Russell Hoban
• The Default World – Naomi Kanakia
• A Place of Greater Safety; Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
• Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe
• Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett – James Knowlson
• Rimbaud: A Biography – Graham Robb
• Frankenstein; The Last Man – Mary Shelley
• Lost Boy Lost Girl – Peter Straub
• The Secret Power of Music: The Transformation of Self and Society through Musical Energy – David Tame