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Joe Cary’s stories have appeared in One Story, XRAY Literary Magazine, BULL, MonkeyBicycle, and elsewhere, and also earned a Special Mention in the 2020 Pushcart Prize Anthology and a Best of the Net nomination. A former Angeleno, he currently lives with his family in Philadelphia, where he fights money laundering, fraud, and other financial crimes. Birds of Prey Don’t Sing is his first novel.

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I did lots of hands on-research and interviews in trying to create a realistic world for Birds of Prey Don’t Sing, and none was more fascinating than my visit to the LA Coroner on Mission Road. Among other things, while we worked through my prepared questions, the Captain received several phone calls. One was from the TV series CSI, with questions about the condition of a corpse—CSI basically call Read more of this blog post »
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"My foundation as a writer was shaped by these stories. I first read most of them in 1984, when I went to grad school in writing at U of Colorado in Boulder. Lucia was one of several wonderful profs I had there, but it was her stories alone that I rea" Read more of this review »
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