Carmen Maria Machado

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Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado.jpg
Machado in 2017
Born (1986-07-03) July 3, 1986 (age 38)
Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
Education American University [1]
Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)
Genre Science fiction, fantasy, horror
Years active2011–present
Notable works Her Body and Other Parties (2017)
In the Dream House (2019)
Notable awards Folio 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.

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Early life

Carmen Maria Machado was born July 3, 1986, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. [6] Machado's paternal grandfather left Santa Clara, Cuba, for the United States when he was 18, gaining U.S. citizenship after serving in the Korean War. He then moved to D.C. and worked at the United States Patent Office, where he met Machado's grandmother, who came over to the U.S. from Austria after World War II. [6]

Machado grew up in a very religious United Methodist household; this upbringing, she says, led to a sense of guilt about her queer sexuality for several years. [7]

Education

She attended Parkland High School in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, [8] and then American University in Washington, D.C., graduating in 2008. [1] [9]

She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and 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. [10] Machado also attended the Clarion Workshop, where she studied under author Ted Chiang and others. [11]

Career

Machado worked in the Iowa Writers' Workshop for two years after receiving her MFA there. After a rejection from Starbucks in 2013, she took up work at Lush, a soap store, while she taught writing as an adjunct professor at Rosemont College and other schools in the area. She also did freelance writing while she lived in Pennsylvania. [1]

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 , Guernica , AGNI , National Public Radio, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books , Strange Horizons , [12] 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, The 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. [13] [14]

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." [15] Her fiction has been a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, [16] the Shirley Jackson Award, [17] 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. 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. [18] In 2018, she won the Bard Fiction Prize. [19]

Her horror-inspired short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was published by Graywolf Press in 2017. [20] It was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, [4] won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award John Leonard Prize, [21] and was shortlisted for the 2018 Dylan Thomas Prize. [22] The collection has been optioned by FX and a television show is in development by Gina Welch. [23]

As of 2018, she is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. [24] Machado is a 2019 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. [25] She was a Visiting associate professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Spring 2021. [26]

Machado was guest editor of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edition. [27] 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. [28]

Her essay "Both Ways", about the 2009 film Jennifer's Body , is part of the anthology It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror , published in October 2022. [29]

Personal life

Machado is queer, and lived in Philadelphia with her wife Val Howlett. [1] The two married in 2017 and maintained a non-monogamous relationship, living with their partner Marne Litfin in a throuple. [30] Howlett described the relationships in March 2022, saying: "It's just really nice to not build your whole life around one single person. Everything from... the division of labor to how we have conflict to sharing joyful things. I just really love our lives." [30] Machado and Howlett separated later that year. [2]

Machado now lives in Brooklyn, New York City. [31]

Awards and honors

YearTitleAwardCategoryResultRef [32] [33] [34]
2014"The Husband Stitch" Nebula Award Novelette Shortlisted [35]
Shirley Jackson Award NoveletteShortlisted [36]
2015 Otherwise Award Longlisted [37]
John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer Longlisted [38]
2017 Her Body and Other Parties Bisexual Book Award FictionWon [39]
Kirkus Prize FictionShortlisted [39]
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award Shortlisted [40]
National Book Award Fiction Shortlisted [39]
National Book Critics Circle Award John Leonard Prize Won [39]
Otherwise Award Honor List [41]
Shirley Jackson Award CollectionWon [39]
2018 Bard Fiction Prize Won [39]
Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize FictionWon [42]
Crawford Award Won [39]
Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted [40]
Indies Choice Book Awards Adult DebutWon [39]
Lambda Literary Award Lesbian Fiction Won [39]
Locus Award CollectionNominated—4th [43]
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Shortlisted [39]
Publishing Triangle Awards Edmund White Award Shortlisted [44]
NAIBA Book of the YearFictionWon [45]
World Fantasy Award Collection Shortlisted [41]
2019 In the Dream House Bisexual Book Award Biography and MemoirWon [46]
Goodreads Choice Award Memoir & AutobiographyNominated—12th [47]
2020 ALA Over the Rainbow Book List Top 10 [48] [49]
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence NonfictionLonglisted [50] [51]
BookTube PrizeNonfictionFinalist [52]
Goldie Award General Non-FictionWon [53]
Heartland Booksellers AwardNonfictionShortlisted [54]
Lambda Literary Award Nonfiction Won [55] [56]
Publishing Triangle Awards Judy Grahn Award Won [57]
Reading Women AwardNonfictionShortlisted [58]
Stonewall Book Award Israel Fishman Non-Fiction AwardHonor [59]
William Saroyan International Prize for Writing NonfictionShortlisted [60]
2021 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Longlisted [61] [62]
Rathbones Folio Prize Won [63] [64]

Machado was awarded the Richard Yates Short Story Prize in 2011 [65] and was named Writer on the Rise by Philadelphia in their Best of Philly awards list. [66]

Bibliography

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