Tricia D. Wagner
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Tricia D. Wagner

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As a young reader, writers were like gods and goddesses to author Tricia D. Wagner. She never could have imagined weaving tales like her favorite storytellers, until at a fateful April dinner conversation with her husband, she learned about a lecture he attended, and it got her mind whirling. By the end of that summer, she’d written 400,000 words: a speculative fiction trilogy. Wagner felt as if she’d emerged from a cocoon as some new sort of creature. She was hooked. It was important to Tricia to sharpen her skills, and she immersed herself in workshops, engaged with coaches, and dove into writing communities, learning from great teachers how to hone her craft. She did this for years, and the result has been five independently published literary adventure novels, including Sun Child of the Moor, a literary fantasy and 2023 winner of the 2023 Royal Dragonfly Book Award. She has also published novelettes, origin stories, children's books, and poetry chapbooks, and to date, she is developing seven new novels. She has found writing to be a method for becoming the person she feels she was born to be, with the act and joy of writing serving to inspire her to be a better person, truer to herself. Often, when Wagner has completed a story, she feels as if she’s been to her story world, whether it’s on the map or not. She likes to believe all the places she writes about exist somewhere, somehow. And writing for her is all about her characters. In her early experiences writing stories, she was surprised and delighted to discover how real were the characters, that her characters were becoming her most treasured friends. She developed a strong ambition to tell their stories with the excellence they deserve. Wagner believes revision is magical in its power to make a good book great, and early drafts are only the beginning of a story’s journey. Any idea can wind up a good story, but with reflection, and time, and improvement, it can become art. She hopes her readers feel enchanted when they read her stories; that after completing one, they feel they’re drifting out from under a spell. Because this is how she feels when she places down the pen, she hopes that her writing might expand their worlds, that readers will fall in love with her characters and will be moved by the artistry of language. When she isn’t writing poignant literary adventures, Wagner works in cardiovascular research, a career that she loves, with a team she profoundly admires. In her spare time, she enjoys studying writing craft, learning languages, and exploring the natural sciences to refine her skills to discover new angles and landscapes that might enrich her writing palette. One such example is a course she took in learning to read and write ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, something that’s sure to end up in a story at some point. Wagner lives in Illinois with her husband and darling cats.
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