Carmen Maria Machado is an American author, critic, and essayist. She is well known as the author of the short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, and her memoir, In the Dream House. She is a former winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, and the Shirley Jackson Award.

In addition to her books, Carmen’s work has appeared in publications like the New Yorker, the New York Times, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. Maria Machado earned her MFA from he Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She now makes her home in Philadelphia. In Pennsylvania, she has been the Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Bloody Summer: Big Cats in the Children's Hand-Games of Never-Again, Pennsylvania(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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Her Body and Other Parties(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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The Low, Low Woods(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women (With: Jane Smiley,Kate Bolick,Jenny Zhang)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In the Dream House(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Best American Experimental Writing Books

Bax 2015 (By: Seth Abramson,Jesse Damiani,Douglas Kearney)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bax 2016 (By: Seth Abramson)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bax 2018 (By: Seth Abramson,Jesse Damiani,Myung Mi Kim)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bax 2020 (With: Seth Abramson,Jesse Damiani,Joyelle McSweeney)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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If You Like Carmen Maria Machado Books, You’ll Love…

In the Dream House: A Memoir is Carmen Maria Machado’s story of a relationship gone bad and domestic abuse. She attempts to make sense of who what happens to her in the story managed to shape her as person. She holds the events of her life up to the light and looks at them from different angles, in an attempt to understand. While the events of the book can be dire, Machado manages to lighten the mood with her wit, playfulness, and desire to ask questions.

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories sees Carme Maria Machado writing stories that touch on psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. She has a unique voice and she proves it in this provocative debut. She bends genre to shape her narratives as they map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. This collection manages to swing from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment in this wholly original collection.

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