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Kara Dalkey
Kara Dalkey, born in 1953 in Los Angeles, is an American author of historical fantasy and young adult fiction who studied anthropology at UCLA. She entered writing through Minneapolis's Scribblies workshop group after earlier work as a musician, gigging on left-handed electric bass with bands including Runestone and Voodoo Blue. Much of her sixteen-novel output draws on Heian-era Japan, notably Little Sister and Heavenward Path, alongside The Water Trilogy set in Arthurian Britain. She was forme...