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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