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
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...
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.
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.
Why Alice Munro Should Play "Gone Home": The Video Game as Story and Experience
Beyond Measurable Time and Space
Worlds Flipped Sideways
On the Borderlands