Laura Rose Wagner

A Haitian woman carries produce to be sold in Port-au-Prince on March 15, 2011. An estimated three million people were affected by the earthquake in 2010.

After surviving Haiti’s earthquake, Laura Wagner turned to fiction

January 9, 2015Books

Laura Rose Wagner was in Haiti to research her Ph.D. thesis when a devastating earthquake hit in 2010. Wagner, like many others, spent hours trapped under the rubble. Now she’s out with a new novel about making it through Haiti’s post-earthquake life.