“With her keen and curious mind, Carrie Hagen comes to her projects with a jump start. She has a reporter’s eye for detail, a writer’s love of facts, an editor’s understanding of what makes a good story.”
Steve Luxenberg, Washington Post associate
editor and award-winning author
Kirkus Reviews called we is got him, Hagen’s first book of narrative nonfiction, “a slice of American crime history both instructive and tragically entertaining.” Other books include the memoir The Other Side of This Life, for which she served as ghostwriter, and the crime thriller The Muralist Of Matter Deep and Dangerous. She has served as the narrative nonfiction writer of civil rights case histories and profiles for Recollection, A Civil Rights Legal Archive, a website produced by the Thurgood Marshall Institute, a multidisciplinary center within the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Her current project is The Vigilance Network, a true story of Philadelphia’s anti-slavery activists, to be published by the University of Georgia Press in 2025.