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Christina Dalcher

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Christina Dalcher earned her doctorate in theoretical linguistics from Georgetown University. She specialized in the phonetics of sound change in Italian and British dialects and taught at universities in the United States, England, and the United Arab Emirates.
Her short stories and flash fiction appear in over one hundred journals worldwide. Recognitions include first prize in the Bath Flash Fiction Award as well as nominations for The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions.
Laura Bradford of Bradford Literary Agency represents Dalcher’s novels.
After spending several years abroad, most recently in Sri Lanka, Dalcher and her husband now split their time between the American South and Andalucia, Spain.
Her debut novel, VOX, w
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“A prosecutor can still seek the death penalty but her own life is forfeit if it turns out that the person executed was innocent. Justine Boucher Callaghan is one such prosecutor. After a life campaigning against the death penalty, she never expected to ask for it. But in the aftermath of the death of her husband, and faced with the monstrous murder of a child and absolute certainty o

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“Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. That’s what they say, right?”
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“One thing I learned from Jackie: you can’t protest what you don’t see coming.”
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“They won't kill us for the same reason they won't sanction abortions. We've turned into necessary evils, objects to be fucked and not heard.”
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