“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 LuxenbergWashington 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 Muralist Of Matter Deep and Dangerous, a new crime thriller. Her current project is The Vigilance Committee, the true story of Philadelphia’s interracial antebellum abolitionists, to be published by the University of Georgia Press in 2023.

Carrie Hagen is a writer based in Philadelphia. A contributor to Smithsonian magazine’s digital publication, she is also an award-winning feature and business writer for the regional magazine Mountain Home.

FICTION DEBUT

The Muralist
Of Matter Deep and Dangerous