Leah Car­roll lives in Brook­lyn New York. She grad­u­at­ed from Emer­son Col­lege and received an MFA in fic­tion from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Flori­da. She is the recip­i­ent of fel­low­ships from the New York Foun­da­tion for the Arts and the Mac­Dow­ell Colony.