Carol Goodman, also known under the pseudonym Juliet Dark, is an American professor and author of gothic fiction who has also written under the pseudonym Lee Carroll with her husband Lee Slonimsky. Goodman currently serves as a creative writing professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

She is the author of The Lake of Dead Languages, The Seduction of Water, which won the Hammett Prize, The Widow's House, and The Night Visitors, both of which won the Mary Higgins Clark Award.

Additionally, she is the co-author, with her husband Lee Slonimsky, of the Watchtower fantasy trilogy. Her work has appeared in journals such as The Greensboro Review, Literal Latte, The Midwest Quarterly, and Other Voices.

After graduating from Vassar College, where she majored in Latin, she taught Latin for several years in Austin, Texas. She then received an M.F.A. in fiction from the New School University. Goodman currently teaches literature and writing at The New School and SUNY New Paltz and lives with her family.