Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2017. She is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, AGNI, NPR,VICE, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015, Best Horror of the Year, Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and Best Women’s Erotica. She has been the recipient of a Millay Colony for the Arts residency, the CINTAS Foundation Fellowship in Creative Writing, the Elizabeth George Foundation Fellowship, and a Michener-Copernicus Fellowship, as well as nominated for a Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards and longlisted for a Tiptree Award. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, and lives in Philadelphia with her partner.

Articles

On Joanna Walsh’s "Grow a Pair: 9 ½ Fairytales About Sex"
ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a love child of Harry Mathews’s Singular Pleasures and Amelia Gray’s AM/PM. The result, Joanna Walsh’s Grow a Pair: 9 ½ Fairytales About Sex, is a raunchy, absurd little tome of ...
Apr 26, 2016
On Joanna Walsh’s "Grow a Pair: 9 ½ Fairytales About Sex"
ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a love child of Harry Mathews’s Singular Pleasures and Amelia Gray’s AM/PM. The result, Joanna Walsh’s Grow a Pair: 9 ½ Fairytales About Sex, is a raunchy, absurd little tome of ...
Carmen Maria MachadoApr 26, 2016
A Girl’s Guide to Sexual Purity
A candid, captivating personal essay about a young woman’s sexual awakening by way of Christian youth groups, traumatic sexual assault, and an inappropriate confidant in the form of a youth pastor with boundary issues....
Mar 5, 2015
- Memoir
Unfilmable
To read Kelly Link’s stories is to understand the sheer possibilities of form, of genre, and how rules can be twisted, snapped, shattered....
Feb 18, 2015
- Fiction
No Bible Without the Devil
As in the best speculative fiction, the allegory of Goodhouse is complex and doesn’t map cleanly onto a single set of ideas....
Oct 7, 2014
Why Alice Munro Should Play "Gone Home": The Video Game as Story and Experience
IN 1996, award-winning fantasy writer Geoff Ryman released 253, a hyperlink/interactive novel about a doomed London Underground train hurtling toward a fatal collision. There are 253 passengers on the train’s seven cars, starting with the driver—who is about ...
Oct 18, 2013
Beyond Measurable Time and Space
IN HIS NOVEL If on a winter’s night a traveler, fabulist Italo Calvino commented, regarding sex and reading, that the two “resemble each other … [in that] within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.” ...
Sep 9, 2013
Worlds Flipped Sideways
DURING A READING at Brooklyn’s Greenlight Bookstore last month, Karen Russell described the process of writing a novel as “kind of like scaling Mt. Everest and passing by your own bones on the way.” If so, then the short story ...
Mar 6, 2013
On the Borderlands
IT IS 2012. The future, to some. The discussion of genre fiction and literary fiction as two distinct and separate entities is dead, so very dead. We understand now that they touch and overlap and play with each other, messily. What ...
Nov 5, 2012