Laura Wagner

Laura Wagner is a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction, teacher, translator, independent scholar, and archivist. She holds a PhD in cultural anthropology. Her ethnographic research focused on displacement, humanitarian aid, and everyday life in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. From 2015 to 2019, she was the project archivist for the Radio Haiti Archive at Duke University. She is also the author of Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go, a young adult novel about the earthquake, which was published by Abrams/Amulet in 2015. She is currently writing a book-length monograph about Radio Haïti-Inter. When she’s not writing or teaching, she volunteers with Haitian asylum-seekers at pro se clinics and as an interpreter/court accompanier.