

From 1991-1995 she attended Vassar College where she obtained a degree in Art History in 1995. She lived in Brockport until leaving for college in 1991. Beginning at age four she created a newspaper with her best friend, recorded stories on a tape recorder, and dictated her stories to her mother who wrote them down for her. Mackler was always interested in writing, and from an early age tested her talent at it. Her mother read to her often and her father told her stories of his own life. Mackler was born in Manhattan, but when she was one her parents moved to Greenwich Village, later to Syracuse, New York, and finally to Brockport, New York, which is the setting for many of her novels.
