Carol Ann Sima was born in New York. She is a grade school language arts teacher in New York.[1]
Sima's first novel, Jane's bad hare day (1995), tells the story of a divorced New Yorker woman, Jane Samuels, who achieves clairvoyant insight into her future after being assaulted by a six-foot hare.[2] Her second novel, The mermaid that came between them (2001) tells the story of an author, Jacob Koleman, and his son, Mac, who both fall in love with a mermaid, Claritha, who is facing menopause and looking for someone to fertilize her last golden egg.[3]