Carmen Maria Machado Biography
Carmen Maria Machado is a famous American short story author, Critic, and essayist frequently published in The New Yorker, Granta, Lightspeed Magazine, and other publications. 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.
Carmen was raised by her parents in Allentown, an hour north of Philadelphia. Her father was the son of two immigrants, with his own father moving to the United States from Cuba at the age of 18. Her grandfather worked in the US Patent Office and met his future wife when she immigrated to the U.S. from Austria after World War II.
Carmen Maria Machado Age
Carmen was born on July 3, 1986. She is currently 33 years old as of 2019.
Carmen Maria Machado In the Dream House
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. … Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry.
And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships.
Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
Carmen Maria Machado Career
Her short stories, essays, and criticism have been published in a number of magazines including The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, Tin House, Lightspeed Magazine, Guernica, AGNI, National Public Radio, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, Strange Horizons, and other publications.
Her stories have also been reprinted in anthologies such as Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017, Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, and Best Women’s Erotica. Machado’s short story “Horror Story,” originally published in Granta in 2015, details a lesbian couple’s difficulty coping with a haunting in their new house.
Machado’s fiction has been called “strange and seductive” while also noting that her “work doesn’t just have form, it takes form.”Her fiction has been a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Franz Kafka Award in Magic Realism, the storySouth Million Writers Award, and the Calvino Prize from the Creative Writing Program at the University of Louisville; as well, an analysis by Io9 indicated that if not for the Sad Puppies ballot manipulation campaign, Machado would have been a finalist for the 2015 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Her horror-inspired short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was published by Graywolf Press in 2017. It was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award for fiction, won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award John Leonard Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Dylan Thomas Prize. The collection has been optioned by FX and a television show is in development by Gina Welch
Carmen Maria Machado Spouse
She is in a romantic relationship with Val Howlett. Machado lives in Philadelphia with her wife.
Carmen Maria Machado Net Worth
Her current net worth is still under review at the moment. This information will be updated soon.
Carmen Maria Machado Books
- Made To Order: Robots and Revolution
- In the Dream House: A Memoir
- March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
- The Mythic Dream
- March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women: A Library of America Special Publication
- Wastelands: The New Apocalypse
- Futures and Fantasies Charlie Jane Anders
- Help Fund My Robot Army and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects
- Her Body And Other Parties
- Uncanny Magazine Issue 12: September/October 2016