[citation needed] She moved to San Francisco soon after college and, while writing her first novel, Rise the Euphrates, worked as a freelance speechwriter for high tech and retail companies, including Levi Strauss and the Mayfield Fund.
[citation needed] Edgarian's second novel, Three Stages of Amazement (2011) is both a love story and social chronicle of turbulent America set in San Francisco 2009 at the start of the financial crisis.
Three Stages of Amazement was called “furiously compelling” by Janet Maslin at The New York Times,[1] “superbly crafted, skillfully plotted” by The Washington Post,[2] and “generous and graceful and true” by O Magazine.
[3] Set in San Francisco in 1906, Edgarian's third novel Vera tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl, the daughter of the town's leading madam, coming of age in the aftermath of the city's devastating earthquake and fire.
[citation needed] In 2003, following the publication of her first novel, Edgarian co-founded the digital publisher and literary education platform Narrative Magazine with former Esquire, Gentlemen's Quarterly, and Scribner editor Tom Jenks.