“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, a new crime thriller. Her current project is The Vigilance Network, a true story of Philadelphia’s interracial antebellum abolitionists, to be published by the University of Georgia Press in 2025.
Carrie Hagen is a writer and researcher 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.
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