About the author

It’s all about the storytelling

Christine Bagley is a short story fiction writer and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. She was a 2016 fiction contributor to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and from 2011 to 2019 she taught writing and presentation skills to foreign national physicians and scientists at the Schepens Eye Research Institute (SERI), affiliate of Harvard Medical School. She is the former editor of The Medical Services Review for Massachusetts General Hospital, and Eye Contact for SERI. Bagley is also the former co-editor and co-publisher of Crime Spell Books. Her short stories have appeared in Briar Cliff Review, Bryant Literary Review, Untoward Magazine, and Fiction on the Web, UK. Additional work includes: five stories in Best New England Crime Stories published by Level Best Books, and two stories in Best New England Crime Stories published by Crime Spell Books. Bagley was also a finalist for the 2012 Al Blanchard Short Crime Fiction Award. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Sisters in Crime.

Recent Work

Mystery

The Woman in the Woods

appears in the 2023 edition of Best New England Crime Stories 2023: Wolfsbane, published by Crime Spell Books.

The Beauport Incident

appears in the 2022 edition of Best New England Crime Stories: Deadly Nightshade, published by Crime Spell Books.

Valhalla

appears in the 2021 edition of Best New England Crime Stories: Bloodroot, published by Crime Spell Books

Excerpt-

“I hear two shots ring out and a flock of crows cawing loudly as they flee from the sudden blast. I assume it’s some hotshot deer hunter trespassing. But what if it’s not?”

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“Coming out of Gloucester Harbor, the boat passed Hammond Castle, a gloomy medieval structure made of rough granite. The gory image in the dining room of St. Romanus having his tongue cut out was jarring. What kind of weirdo hangs a gruesome painting where he eats?”

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“Jay Cauley stands in his briefs in front of the bathroom mirror with a collander on his head. He’s wedged a spray of seagull feathers in each handle, and imagines himself jumping off a Viking longship.”   

Literary Fiction

With Grace

appears in the April 2020 issue of the Briar Cliff Review.

Excerpt-

“For two months there were gunshots all around us, car bombs, screaming and crying. For the first time in my life I thought I was going to die.”