Gervais Hagerty grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. She graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Vanderbilt University. After a post-college stint in Southern California, she returned to the East Coast, where she worked as a news reporter and producer for both radio and television broadcasts. In 2013, she earned her M.B.A. from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and soon after became an instructor, teaching communications to cadets.
In addition to writing novels, Gervais runs creative writing workshops at Redux and hosts a weekly radio show—Just for Kicks—
on WOHM, 96.3FM.
She is a past board member of The Charleston Council for International Visitors, served on Charleston's Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, and recently joined the board of the Charleston Library Society. She recently moved her family Ghent, Belgium. As a 2026-2027 Fulbright Scholar, she is living abroad to research the city’s recent transportation changes and to bring those best practices back home to make Charleston’s streets safer and more enjoyable for everyone.
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