Carina Adly Mackenzie is an American producer, young adult novelist, and screenwriter best known for creating the CW TV series Roswell, New Mexico.
[1] Mackenzie grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut and studied English at the University of Colorado at Boulder before moving to Los Angeles to become a writer.
[3] She wrote a young adult novel for Paper Lantern Lit, a literary development company, called Eternal Night, about gods living in plain sight of humans and then disappearing, bringing chaos onto the world.
An author friend; Rebecca Serle, whom she knew through her work as a television critic, recommended she approach PaperLantern Lit.
[8][9] In January 2023, it was announced that Mackenzie will write the second episode of the new TV Series ordered by Amazon[10] based on the young adult contemporary novel We Were Liars, an amnesia thriller set on a private island close to Massachusetts, written by E. Lockhart.