Carina Adly MacKenzie

Carina Adly Mackenzie is an American producer, young adult novelist, and screenwriter best known for creating the CW TV series Roswell, New Mexico. and Prime Video's adaptation We Were Liars.

Early life 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.

Career Before becoming a screenwriter, she was a television critic at Zap2it.com, the Los Angeles Times, and Teen Vogue,

Mackenzie spent five years as staff writer on The Originals and also wrote for The Flash. It was published in August 2014. Mackenzie notes being frustrated in 2012, wanting to write a novel but feeling that every publishing house, literary agent, and packaging company she spoke to about that topic was only interested in something like the Fifty Shades series, which she personally was not interested in writing. An author friend, Rebecca Serle, whom she knew through her work as a television critic, recommended she approach PaperLantern Lit. She submitted a sample of her current work in progress, which led to the eventual creation of Eternal Night.

Roswell, New Mexico Mackenzie created the Roswell, New Mexico television series, a reboot of the original Roswell series that launched in 1999 and also included novels.

We Were Liars In January 2023, it was announced that Mackenzie would write the second episode of the new We Were Liars TV series ordered by Amazon, which is 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. Mackenzie also serves as an executive producer along with Julie Plec, Emily Cummins, and Lockhart.

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