About Carrie Messenger

Carrie Messenger received her BA from Yale University and her MFA 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 The MacDowell Colony. She lives in Shepherdstown, WV and teaches at Shepherd University. In the Amber Chamber won the 2017 Brighthorse Prize for Short Fiction.

I am currently working on three projects: essays about my experience with Long Covid, which I have had since 2020, and disability; essays about Jefferson County, West Virginia; and a noir novel about Barbara Stanwyck, Theresa Harris, and Vera Caspary.