Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado
Machado in 2017
Machado in 2017
Born (1986-07-03) July 3, 1986 (age 37)
Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
EducationAmerican University[1]
Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)
GenreScience fiction, fantasy, horror
Years active2011–present
Notable worksHer Body and Other Parties (2017)
In the Dream House (2019)
Notable awardsFolio Prize 2021 winner
National Book Award finalist
Spouse
Val Howlett[1]
(separated[2])
Website
carmenmariamachado.com

Carmen Maria Machado (born July 3, 1986) is an American short story author, essayist, and critic best known for Her Body and Other Parties, a 2017 short story collection, and her memoir In the Dream House, which was published in 2019 and won the 2021 Folio Prize.[3] Machado is frequently published in The New Yorker, Granta, Lightspeed, and other publications. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award[4] and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette. Her stories have been reprinted in Year's Best Weird Fiction[5], Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, The New Voices of Fantasy, and Best Women's Erotica.

  1. ^ a b Shepard, Louisa (November 2, 2017). "Once rejected by Starbucks, writer-in-residence is a National Book Award finalist". Penn Today. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference ResidenciesSubstack was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Machado wins 2021 Folio Prize". Books+Publishing. 2021-03-25. Archived from the original on 2021-03-24. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
  4. ^ "2017 National Book Award finalists revealed". CBS News. October 4, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
  5. ^ "Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 2". Undertow Publications. Retrieved 2020-01-23.

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