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These days I’m a writer and editor at The Observer. Here’s a piece on the language of the Trump administration and what it means; here’s how I tried to capture my haunting experience on Pitcairn Island. Here’s what I wrote about the experience of writing fiction and non-fiction about the ‘same’ subject…

And — drumroll — my new novel, Wash, is out now from Salt Publishing. ‘The effect… is to create the past the way memory does, but with far more clarity. Readers enter her fiction almost physically, as it is so solid and majestic, rather like the great bridge itself,’ wrote John Sedgwick in the Financial Times.

‘Erica Wagner’s Wash is a universal story of depth, wisdom and heart. She shows how one person’s struggle can stand for all of our struggles, and how what we build, and who we love, make the world we all live in.’ —Elif Shafak

And as Kirsty Hamilton-Emery writes: ‘Wash takes as its hero Washington Roebling, the visionary engineer behind the Brooklyn Bridge — and transforms his story into something deeper and stranger: an anti-biography, a work of fiction that both illuminates and unsettles what we think of as fact.’

Have a listen to ‘Les Rencontres’, the splendid literary podcast I host for CHANEL. Interviews with terrific debut women authors — Sheena Patel, Selby Wynn Schwartz, Louise Kennedy, Patricia Lockwood, many more.