Carrie Messenger received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Moldova and lived in Romania on a Fulbright grant. Her work has appeared in Ecotone, Fairy Tale Review, and Witness. She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and MacDowell. In the Amber Chamber won the 2017 Brighthorse Prize for Short Fiction. She was the guest editor of a special section in Pleiades magazine on fairy tales and myths, published in 2017.
Messenger used her time at MacDowell to work on her novel about Chicago in the late 1960s.
