Carol Guzy is a staff photographer for The Washington Post. She graduated in 1978 with an Associate's degree in Registered Nursing from Northhampton County Area Community College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, her hometown. A change of heart led her to study photography at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she graduated in 1980 with an Applied Science Associate's Degree in photography.

While at the Art Institute she interned at the Miami Herald which hired her as a staff photographer upon her graduation. After eight years there during which she won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography (as one of a two-member team covering the Armero, Columbia mudslide), she moved to Washington, D.C. to become a staff photographer for The Washington Post.

Katharine Graham, chairwoman of The Washington Post executive committee, hugs Post photographer Carol Guzy (R) April 18 at The Post after it was announced Guzy won the 1995 Pulitzer for Spot News for her photographs taken in Haiti.