Carrie Printz is an award-winning playwright and fiction writer. Her plays have won both national and regional competitions and have been performed at a variety of theaters, including The Edge Theatre Company and And Toto too Theatre Company. Her full-length play, Gifted, was produced by The Edge in 2013 after winning its new play festival. Race Relations, another full-length play, won first place in the Writer's Digest 2009 Stage Play competition.  Her newest play, Fractured Moonlight, was named a semi-finalist in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2018 National Playwrights Conference. Her novel-in-progress, After Abigail, won First Place for Women’s Fiction in the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ 2025 Colorado Gold Rush Literary Awards Contest.

Carrie studied playwriting at Brown University, the Lighthouse Writer's Workshop and Primary Stages' Einhorn School of Performing Arts.  Carrie also developed and taught a master's level playwriting course at the University of Denver. She is a widely published journalist and healthcare communicator.