Christina Dalcher

Christina Dalcher was raised in New Jersey. She attended Georgetown University and received a PhD in linguistics. Later, Dalcher moved to London to research at City University, London. There, she studied how speakers of different British dialects learned, heard, and produced the r sound. After living in London, Dalcher taught linguistics, academic writing, phonetics, beginning Italian, and other related classes at a variety of British and American universities, as well as at a university in Abu Dhabi. Dalcher had been writing and publishing flash fiction (short stories shorter than 1500 words) for some time when, in 2017, she decided to expand one of her stories into what would become Vox. She wrote Vox in about two months. Following Vox, Dalcher has written several other novels that explore similar themes. She lives in Virginia with her husband.