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Carmen Maria Machado
Memoir & Personal Growth
American author, essayist, and critic (born 1986), known for Her Body and Other Parties and the memoir In the Dream House, which won the 2021 Folio Prize.
Biography
Carmen Maria Machado (born July 3, 1986) is an American author, essayist, and critic best known for the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties and the memoir In the Dream House. Her work blends literary fiction and personal narrative, and her memoir received the 2021 Folio Prize.
Machado has been published in venues including The New Yorker, Granta, and Lightspeed. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette. Her stories have been reprinted in anthologies such as 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.
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Books by Carmen Maria Machado
In the Dream House
In the Dream House is an innovative memoir that traces a harrowing relationship and examines psychological abuse, using distinct narrative tropes to analyze events, queer relationships, and cultural representations of abuse.