Dia Calhoun

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Dia Calhoun was born on 4 January 1959 in Seattle, Washington. She trained as a dancer from the age of five until an injury ended that path at sixteen, and she later earned a degree in English from Mills College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. She worked as a freelance lettering artist and logo designer in Seattle and taught typography and lettering at Cornish College of the Arts. She began writing novels in her late twenties. Her fantasy novels include Firegold, Aria of the Sea, White Midnight, The Phoenix Dance and Avielle of Rhia, and she also wrote the verse novel Eva of the Farm. Aria of the Sea won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature. She co-founded the readergirlz literacy project and now lives in Washington state, where she also works as a sculptor.

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Books

• Aria of the Sea (2000) · Windward Core Canon
• The Phoenix Dance (2005) · Windward Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 2 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)

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