ABOUT

CHERYL WAGNER is a contributor to public radio’s This American Life. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Mississippi Review, Five Dials, and has been featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s The Current and Definitely Not the Opera. Her cover stories on Hurricane Katrina won awards from the Louisiana Press Association. A Louisiana native, she is a graduate of Tulane University and the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. She lives in New Orleans.


  • Media and Tour Inquiries: Karen Auerbach at kauerbach at kensingtonbooks dot com
  • Literary Inquiries: Lindsay Edgecombe or Daniel Greenberg at Levine Greenberg Literary Agency
  • Random Inquiries: cherylwagner1 at gmail dot com

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Featured Writer of the Month interview with Oxford American Magazine

A recent New York Times Magazine link for Cheryl Wagner:

4-26-09      Wound, Tooth, Time

Some online This American Life audio links for Cheryl Wagner:

About Katrina and the post-storm Reconstruction:

9-9-2005     After the Flood: Diaspora

8-18-2006    The Cat Came Back: Refugee Cat

2-23-2007    In the Shadow of the City: The Thin Gray Line

Earlier Work:

5-11-2001     Neighbors: The Girl Next Door