Marilyn Carr is a recent MFA graduate from the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is her fourth degree, but who’s counting? (She is.) Her first memoir, Nowhere like This Place: Tales from a Nuclear Childhood, was published in November 2020. She blogs about the absurdness of everyday life at www.marilyncarr.com, and is currently working on the third installment of her memoirs, If It’s Shreveport, This Must Be Tuesday.
Book(s)
Books
Nowhere like This Place
Marilyn Carr’s family arrived in Deep River, Ontario in 1960 because her dad got a job at a mysterious place called “the plant.” The quirky, isolated residence for the employees of Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories was impeccably designed by a guy named John Bland.
How I Invented the Internet
Despite growing up in Deep River, Ontario, the company town for Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories that only exists because of science, Marilyn Carr was firmly neither a science, technology, engineering, nor mathematics person.