Jacqueline Carey grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1977. Since then she has lived mostly in New York City and Montana.
Her short stories first appeared in The New Yorker in 1986. Her work has also been published in Elle, Allure, WigWag, the Village Voice, and the New York Times Magazine. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and she used to write a mystery column for Salon.com. She received a Guggenheim fellowship to write THE CROSSLEY BABY.
Recently she moved to Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband, writer Ian Frazier, and their two children.