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Carmen Maria Machado is an American author and recipient of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and the John Leonard Prize for her 2017 story collection Her Body and Other Parties. Her most recent work, In The Dream House, is a hauntingly beautiful memoir, and is just as much a tale of warning as it is a. In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was. With exacting, exquisite prose, Carmen Maria Machado writes about the complexities of abuse in queer relationships in her absolutely remarkable memoir In The Dream House. She deftly chronicles the wildness of succumbing to desire, the entrancing tenderness of loving and being loved, the fragility of hope, and the unspeakable horror when the woman you love is a monster beneath and on the surface of.

In the Dream House: A Memoir — Carmen Maria Machado My debut memoir, In the Dream House, is available from Graywolf Press (US) and Strange Light (Canada), and Serpent's Tail (UK). ”Welcome to the House of Machado. Proceed directly into the forbidden room; enjoy the view as the floor gives way.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times. Carmen Maria Machado: Fiction Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the memoir In the Dream House and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book.

BornJuly 3, 1986 (age 34)
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materAmerican University[1]
Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)
GenreScience fiction, fantasy, horror
Notable worksHer Body and Other Parties (2017)
In the Dream House (2019)
Notable awardsFolio Prize 2021 winner
National Book Award finalist
Years active2011–present
SpouseVal Howlett[1]
Website
carmenmariamachado.com

Carmen Maria Machado (born 1986) is an American short story author, essayist, and critic frequently published in The New Yorker, Granta, Lightspeed Magazine, and other publications. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award[2] and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette. Her stories have been reprinted in Year’s Best Weird Fiction[3], Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year,The New Voices of Fantasy, and Best Women's Erotica. Her story collection Her Body and Other Parties was published in 2017. Her memoir In the Dream House was published in 2019 and won the 2021 Folio Prize.[4] Machado lives in Philadelphia with her wife.[5]

Early life[edit]

Carmen Maria Machado was raised by her parents in Allentown, an hour north of Philadelphia. Her father was the son of two immigrants, with his own father moving to the United States from Cuba at the age of 18.[6] Machado's grandfather worked in the US Patent Office and met his future wife when she immigrated to the U.S. from Austria after World War II.[6]

Education[edit]

Machado earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has received fellowships and residencies from the Michener-Copernicus Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the CINTAS Foundation, the Speculative Literature Foundation, the University of Iowa, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.[5] Machado also attended the Clarion Workshop where she studied under authors such as Ted Chiang.[7]

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Influences[edit]

Machado says her writing has been influenced by Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Helen Oyeyemi, and Yōko Ogawa.[7] In particular, Machado says she was heavily influenced by Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was given to her to read by an 'insightful and amazing English teacher' when she was in the 10th grade of high school.[8]

Career[edit]

Machado's short stories, essays, and criticism have been published in a number of magazines including The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, Tin House, Lightspeed Magazine, Guernica, AGNI, National Public Radio, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, Strange Horizons, and other publications. Her stories have also been reprinted in anthologies such as Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017, Year's Best Weird Fiction, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, and Best Women's Erotica. Machado's short story 'Horror Story,' originally published in Granta in 2015, details a lesbian couple's difficulty coping with a haunting in their new house.[9][10]

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Machado's fiction has been called 'strange and seductive' and it has been said that her 'work doesn't just have form, it takes form.'[11] Her fiction has been a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette,[12] the Shirley Jackson Award,[13] the Franz Kafka Award in Magic Realism, the storySouthMillion Writers Award, and the Calvino Prize from the Creative Writing Program at the University of Louisville. An analysis by Io9 indicated that if not for the Sad Puppies ballot manipulation campaign, Machado would have been a finalist for the 2015 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.[14] In 2018, she won the Bard Fiction Prize.[15]

Her horror-inspired short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was published by Graywolf Press in 2017.[16] It was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award for fiction,[2] won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award John Leonard Prize,[17] and was shortlisted for the 2018 Dylan Thomas Prize.[18] The collection has been optioned by FX and a television show is in development by Gina Welch.[19]

As of 2018, she is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.[20] Machado is a 2019 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.[21]

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Machado was Guest Editor of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edition.[22] Her sci fi short stories have appeared in volumes including Latinx Rising: An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Matthew David Goodwin with an introduction by Frederick Luis Aldama.[23]

Personal life[edit]

Machado is queer and married to the writer, Val Howlett.[24]

Bibliography[edit]

Short stories[edit]

  • 'The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror' (Granta)
  • 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' (Harper's Bazaar)
  • 'Mary When You Follow Her' (VQR)
  • 'Eight Bites' (Gulf Coast)
  • 'Blur' (Tin House)
  • 'The Husband Stitch' (Granta)
  • 'Horror Story' (Granta)
  • 'Inventory' (Strange Horizons)
  • 'Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead' (Lightspeed Magazine)
  • 'Especially Heinous' (The American Reader)
  • 'Mothers' (Interfictions)
  • 'The Book of the Dead' (BBC Radio 4)
  • 'Haunt' (Conjunctions)
  • 'A Cat, a Bride, a Servant' (Garage)
  • 'A Brief and Fearful Star' (Slate/Future Tense)
  • 'Relaxation Technique' (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
  • 'Miss Laura's School for Esquire Men' (Tin House)
  • 'Vacation' (Wigleaf)
  • 'The Old Women Who Were Skinned' (Fairy Tale Review)
  • 'Descent' (Nightmare Magazine)
  • 'My Body, Herself' (Uncanny Magazine)
  • 'Observations About Eggs from the Man Sitting Next to Me on a Flight from Chicago, Illinois to Cedar Rapids, Iowa' (Lightspeed Magazine)

Books[edit]

  • Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU (novella, The American Reader, May 2013)
  • Her Body and Other Parties (story collection, Graywolf Press, 2017; Shirley Jackson Award winner, single-author collection)
  • In the Dream House (Graywolf Press, 2019) – Rathbones Folio Prize 2021

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ abShepard, 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.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  2. ^ ab'2017 National Book Award finalists revealed'. CBS News. October 4, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
  3. ^'Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 2'. Undertow Publications. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  4. ^'Machado wins 2021 Folio Prize'. Books+Publishing. 2021-03-25. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
  5. ^ abCarmen Maria Machado biography, author's website, accessed April 23, 2017.
  6. ^ ab'The metafictional, liminal, lyrical ways of writer Carmen Maria Machado' by Sabrina Vourvoulias, AL DÍA News, December 3, 2015.
  7. ^ ab'Her Body and Other Parties: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado' by Amandine Faucheux, NDR Magazine, May 2015.
  8. ^'Interview With Carmen Maria Machado', Shimmer Magazine, accessed April 23, 2017.
  9. ^'Horror Story'. Granta. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
  10. ^Machado, Carmen Maria (2017). Her Body and Other Parties. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press.
  11. ^Sofia Samatar, 'Double Take: On Carmen Maria Machado',The Los Angeles Review of Books, April 26, 2015.
  12. ^'2014 Nebula Awards Winners', Locus Magazine, June 6, 2015.
  13. ^'2017 Shirley Jackson Award Winners', Shirley Jackson Awards website, accessed April 23, 2017.
  14. ^This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been, by Andrew Liptak, at Io9; published August 23, 2015; retrieved November 26, 2017.
  15. ^Relations, Bard Public. 'Annual Bard Fiction Prize Is Awarded To Carmen Maria Machado | Bard College Public Relations'. www.bard.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  16. ^'On Carmen Maria Machado's Body Horrors'. The+Millions. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
  17. ^Maher, John (January 22, 2018). '2017 NBCC Awards Finalists Announced'. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved January 23, 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  18. ^'Dylan Thomas Prize 2018 shortlist announced'. Books+Publishing. Retrieved 2019-02-04.
  19. ^'Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body And Other Parties Adaptation Snatched Up by FX'. Jezebel. Retrieved Feb 21, 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  20. ^Lemieux, Elizabeth (March 2, 2018). 'Carmen Maria Machado: Sitting Down with Penn's Writer–In–Residence'. 34th Street. Retrieved Oct 31, 2018.
  21. ^'John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Carmen Maria Machado'. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  22. ^Studios, Clockpunk. 'Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019'. John Joseph Adams. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
  23. ^Latinx rising : an anthology of Latinx science fiction and fantasy. Goodwin, Matthew David, Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969-. Columbus. ISBN978-0-8142-7799-7. OCLC1157344767.CS1 maint: others (link)
  24. ^'Once rejected by Starbucks, writer-in-residence is a National Book Award finalist'. Penn Today. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
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