Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the memoir In the Dream House and the 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, a Shirley Jackson Award and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. She is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.
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In Conversation | The Online Edition
Podcast | Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado
We discuss the dilemmas presented by her new memoir, In the Dream House.
‘What does it mean to present a face of one’s community that isn’t commonly seen, and that might be seen as bad PR?’
Fiction | Issue 150
The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror
Carmen Maria Machado
‘The light pouring from the open door throbbed like a bruised thumb.’
New fiction from Carmen Maria Machado.
In Conversation | Issue 136
Granta Reads: Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘The Husband Stitch’
Carmen Maria Machado
Rosalind Porter reads Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘The Husband Stitch’. The story was first published in...
Essays & Memoir | Issue 136
Best Book of 1998: 253
Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado on why Geoff Ryman’s 253 is the best book of 1998.
Five Things Right Now | Issue 132
Five Things Right Now: Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado, author of ‘The Husband Stitch’, shares five links to what she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Fiction | The Online Edition
The Husband Stitch
Carmen Maria Machado
‘I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.’