Marilyn Carr’s career is mostly distinguished by too many hours spent in frequent flyer lounges. She is astonished that, as a management consultant and software market analyst, people actually believed what she said. She has authored hundreds of pieces of business writing, including eBooks for software giants like Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP, which have been downloaded many thousands of times, even though none of them is very funny. As a keynote speaker, she has entertained and enlightened audiences at international conferences on topics like how to avoid fatal accidents on the information highway and how to become a software billionaire. 

Her first memoir, Nowhere Like This Place: Tales from a Nuclear Childhood was a finalist for the Penguin Random House MFA prize, was nominated for the Leacock Medal, and was a finalist for the 2023 Whistler Book Awards. Her second book, a coming-of-work-age memoir, How I Invented the Internet, was nominated for the Leacock Medal and the Toronto Book Awards. The third installment of her life story, If It’s Shreveport, It Must Be Tuesday was published in June 2025.