Carol Di Prima’s career as an educator has spanned decades. She began her career as an elementary school teacher, librarian, and media specialist. Being the school’s librarian and media specialist intensified her passion for books and writing. It gave her great joy to see the look of wonder when her students read their favorite books. Carol Di Prima’s first novel, Lily...Laura was published in 2020. When Di Prima decided to self-publish via IngramSpark, it became a Four Seasons Book Awards Spring 2023 Finalist and garnered the 2023 BookFest Awards Honorable Mention Award for Fiction-YA-Fantasy. Celebrating its fifth year in print, Di Prima renamed the fifth anniversary edition, The Mmajjian Warrior and The Enchanted Carousel, and simultaneously publisheda Spanish language edition (translated by Wendy Feliz) titled La Guerrera Mmajjica y el Carrusel Encantado. The Mmajjian Warrior and The Enchanted Carousel garnered the Winter 2024 Four Seasons Book Award and 2025 BookFest Awards Third Place for Fiction-YA-Fantasy. Di Prima is a member of the American Library Association (ALA). She has degrees in elementary education, and intermedia from Lehman College in New York, and a school library and media specialist (SLMS) from Syracuse University. She lives in Westchester with her two cats, Sienna and Bella.