Carmen Maria Machado (born 1986) is an American short story author, essayist, and critic frequently published in The New Yorker, Granta, Lightspeed Magazine, and other publications. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and 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, The New Voices of Fantasy, and Best Women's Erotica. Her story collection Her Body and Other Parties was published in 2017. Her memoir In the Dream House was published in 2019 and won the 2021 Folio Prize. Machado is queer and lives in Philadelphia with her wife Val Howlett.
Carmen Maria Machado
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- Dec. 1, 1986
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Carmen Maria Machado (born 1986) is an American short story author, essayist, and critic frequently published in The New Yorker, Granta, Lightspeed Magazine, and other publications. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and 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, The New Voices of Fantasy, and Best Women's Erotica. Her story collection Her Body and Other Parties was published in 2017. Her memoir In the Dream House was published in 2019 and won the 2021 Folio Prize. Machado is queer and lives in Philadelphia with her wife Val Howlett.
Books by Carmen Maria Machado

Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, W. E. B. Du Bois, Greg Bear, Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, Brian Stableford, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Carmen Maria Machado, Mark Samuels, Erica L. Satifka, Drew Ford: Grave Predictions (2016, Dover Publications, Incorporated)
Grave Predictions
by Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, and 11 others


