Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado
Occupation Writer
Language English
Nationality American
Genre Science fiction, fantasy, horror
Notable works Her Body and Other Parties
Notable awards National Book Award finalist
Years active 2011-present
Website
www.carmenmachado.com

Carmen Maria Machado is an American short story author, essayist, and critic frequently published in The New Yorker, Granta, Lightspeed Magazine, and other publications. Her story collection Her Body and Other Parties was published in 2017. A finalist for the National Book Award[1] and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, her stories have been reprinted in Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, The New Voices of Fantasy, and Best Women's Erotica. Machado lives in Philadelphia with her wife.[2]

Early life and education

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 coming to the United States from Cuba at the age of 18.[3] 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.[3]

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, the Yaddo Corporation, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.[2] Machado also attended the Clarion Workshop where she studied under authors such as Ted Chiang.[4]

Machado says her writing has been influenced by Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Helen Oyeyemi, and Yoko Ogawa.[4] 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.[5]

Career

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 fiction has been called "strange and seductive" while also noting that her "work doesn't just have form, it takes form."[6] Her fiction has been a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette,[7] the Shirley Jackson Award,[8] the Franz Kafka Award in Magic Realism, the storySouth Million Writers Award, and the Calvino Prize from the Creative Writing Program at the University of Louisville.

Her story collection Her Body and Other Parties was published by Graywolf Press in 2017. It was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award for fiction.[1] It won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award John Leonard Prize.[9]

As of 2018, she is the Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 "2017 National Book Award finalists revealed". CBS News. October 4, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
  2. 1 2 Carmen Maria Machado biography, author's website, accessed April 23, 2017.
  3. 1 2 "The metafictional, liminal, lyrical ways of writer Carmen Maria Machado" by Sabrina Vourvoulias, AL DÍA News, December 3, 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Her Body and Other Parties: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado" by Amandine Faucheux, NDR Magazine, May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Interview With Carmen Maria Machado", Shimmer Magazine, accessed April 23, 2017.
  6. ↑ Sofia Samatar, "Double Take: On Carmen Maria Machado",The Los Angeles Review of Books, April 26, 2015.
  7. ↑ "2014 Nebula Awards Winners", Locus Magazine, June 6, 2015.
  8. ↑ "2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners", Shirley Jackson Awards website, accessed April 23, 2017.
  9. ↑ John Maher (January 22, 2018). "2017 NBCC Awards Finalists Announced". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
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