Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado
Occupation Writer
Language English
Nationality American
Genre Science fiction, fantasy, horror
Years active 2011-present
Website
www.carmenmachado.com

Carmen Maria Machado is a 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 will be published by Graywolf Press in 2017. A finalist for 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, and Best Women's Erotica.

Life

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.[1] 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.[1]

Machado says her writing has been influenced by Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Helen Oyeyemi, and Yoko Ogawa.[2] 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.[3]

Machado lives in Philadelphia with her partner.[4]

Education and career

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.[5]

Machado also attended the Clarion Workshop where she studied under authors such as Ted Chiang.[2]

She is currently the Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

Writings

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, 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. She has also been longlisted for the 2015 James Tiptree Jr. Award.

Her story collection Her Body and Other Parties will be published by Graywolf Press in 2017.

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 "The metafictional, liminal, lyrical ways of writer Carmen Maria Machado" by Sabrina Vourvoulias, AL DÍA News, Dec. 3, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Her Body and Other Parties: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado" by Amandine Faucheux, NDR Magazine, May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Interview With Carmen Maria Machado" Shimmer Magazine, accessed April 23, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Carmen Maria Machado biography, author's website, accessed April 23, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Carmen Maria Machado biography, author's website, accessed April 23, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Double Take: On Carmen Maria Machado" by Sofia Samatar, 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.
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