laura wagner

Laura
Wagner

Laura Wagner is an anthropologist, writer, and translator. From 2015 to 2019, she was the archivist for the Radio Haiti collection at Duke University, and is currently the lead of the Haitian Creole team at Respond Crisis Translation. She is the author of Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti, and is working on a nonfiction book that brings together the story of the 2010 earthquake with the story of Radio Haiti and its archive.

Laura Wagner is an anthropologist, writer, and translator. From 2015 to 2019, she was the archivist for the Radio Haiti collection at Duke University, and is currently the lead of the Haitian Creole team at Respond Crisis Translation. She is the author of Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti, and is working on a nonfiction book that brings together the story of the 2010 earthquake with the story of Radio Haiti and its archive.

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