Hey,
I’m Carrie-Ellise.
“A belly dancer who couldn’t shimmy, a flight attendant who struggled with eye contact, and a bodybuilder more terrified of my reflection than stepping on stage — across five books, I’ve continually taken life’s struggles and fashioned them into something others’ can use to empower themselves.”
Author Bio
Carrie-Ellise Poirier is an indie author and publisher originally from Bristol, England, now residing in Seattle, Washington. Over twenty years, she has authored five books, including The Cabin Crew Interview Made Easy (6th ed), Become Emirates Cabin Crew, and DreamCurves.
Carrie is currently working on her sixth title, a debut memoir, The Good Girl Checklist, which chronicles her decade-long journey to reverse-engineer rejection and is a gripping exploration of identity, perfectionism, and self-destruction. Told with the naïveté of The Maid and the craftiness of Catch Me If You Can, The Good Girl Checklist intertwines the psychological descent and gothic overtones of Black Swan with the underdog pursuit of Educated. Ideal for readers who appreciate characters as fractured as they are fierce.
Whilst her past reads like a mismatched CV — a belly dancer who couldn’t quite shimmy, a flight attendant who struggled with eye contact, and a bodybuilder more terrified of her reflection than stepping on stage — across five books, she has continually taken life’s struggles and fashioned them into something others’ can use to empower themselves.
After competing in the 2015 Miami Pro fitness competition, Carrie was interviewed and appeared on Bristol West News, and was featured in The Daily Mirror and Muscle & Fitness Hers. More recently, she appeared on the Rejected Central podcast and contributed essays to The BDD Foundation.
Beyond writing, Carrie is committed to mental health advocacy. She serves as a research volunteer for University College London, a media volunteer for the BDD Foundation, and a grassroots advocate for the BDD Special Interest Group with the International OCD Foundation.
Fingers in pages,
Deceiving only myself,
Pretending to think.
Carrie-Ellise
About Me
I never set out to become an author. It was the one thing I didn’t strategise — although, unsurprisingly, it did originate from my over-planning.
I dreamt of becoming a flight attendant, a trolley dolly, to fly on the queen of the skies to the city of dreams. Only, my personality wasn’t a fit for the elegant, fast-talking, Pan-Am smiling world of aviation. Still, I desperately wanted to be ‘normal.’ So, during my two years on a Youth Award Scheme, I designed an unusual school project: reverse-engineer my personality to fit the flight attendant ideal.
For twelve long years that project became my obsession.
From it, emerged a wrist-thick compendium that not only reverse-engineered nineteen airline rejections, but also sleuthed me past the seven-step, ultra-competitive recruitment process. In an unexpected side-twist, it became the blueprint for healing my fractured identity — though, not before getting me into a whole lot of serious trouble.
That blueprint formed the foundation for my flagship book, The Cabin Crew Interview Made Easy, which went viral in an eBay auction and set me on my present journey. A full-time indie author and publisher since 2005, my compendium is in its 6th edition, and I’m proud to say Blackwell’s stocked its hand-bound debut edition.
From the comma to the cover, and long before print-on-demand was a thing, I ran a one-woman book production and distribution centre from my bedroom in Bristol, England — printing, glueing, ironing, guillotining, and pressing spines in a vice as demand grew by word of mouth.
The desire to fit in and be “normal” shaped my earlier work. Today, I focus on authenticity. It took two decades to shed my constructed identities and, in the process, discover, trust, and embrace my true self — embracing my quirks, like having a perfect pink pen by my side, always facing the window.
