Carrie-Edmund Laben grew up in western New York. They earned their BS at Cornell and later their MFA at the University of Montana. They now live in Queens, where they spend a lot of time staring at birds.Their work has appeared in such venues as Birding, Clarkesworld, The Dark, Indiana Review, Okey-Panky, and Outlook Springs. In 2017 they won the Shirley Jackson Award in Short Fiction for the story "Postcards from Natalie" and Duke University's Documentary Essay Prize for the essay "The Wrong Place". Other honors include the Anne LaBastille Memorial Writer's Residency (2015), the MacDowell Fellowship (2018), and the Brush Creek Residency (2019).