Colleen Hagerty
Nonfiction
Santa Monica, CA
Colleen Hagerty is an award-winning journalist specializing in covering extreme weather disasters, including deeply reported features and explainers diving into how policies and technologies impact disaster mitigation, effects, and recovery. You can find her work across BBC News and PBS outputs, as well as in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Popular Science, and Rolling Stone, among other outlets. She also publishes My World’s on Fire, a newsletter about disasters. Colleen’s reporting has been supported by CUNY’s Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program, the Fuller Project, the International Women’s Media Foundation, the Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources, Media in Color, the Neil Peirce Foundation, and the ACOS Alliance. She was a 2023 Complicating the Narratives fellow with the Solutions Journalism Network reporting on prescribed fire and a 2024 Spruceton Inn Artist-in-Residence, where she began working on her first book.