Marilyn Carr

Marilyn Carr’s resume is mostly distinguished by too many hours spent in frequent flyer lounges. She is astonished that, as a management consultant and software industry analyst, people actually believed what she said. She has authored hundreds of pieces of business writing, including eBooks for software giants like Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP, which have been downloaded many thousands of times, even though none of them is very funny. As a keynote speaker, she has entertained and enlightened audiences at international conferences on topics like how to avoid fatal accidents on the information highway and how to become a software billionaire (hint: start with at least two billion). Marilyn is a class of 2020 MFA graduate from the University of King’s College, her third master’s degree, but who's counting? (She is.) She blogs about the absurdness of everyday life at www.marilyncarr.com. Her first memoir, Nowhere like This Place: Tales From a Nuclear Childhood was published in November 2020. Her second memoir, How I Invented the Internet, was published in the fall of 2022, and she is currently working on her next nonfiction book, If It’s Shreveport, It must be Tuesday.