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Christina Adam

Christina Adam

Christina Adam Biography

Christina Adam was born in 1947. Her award-winning stories appeared in many literary journals as well as The Atlantic Monthly and Cosmopolitan. Her work has been anthologized in Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers. She was the recipient of an Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowship.

She published a medieval-style bestiary (Any Small Thing Can Save You) in 2002. She died in 2003, shortly before the publication of her first novel, Love and Country.



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