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Carmen Maria Machado

July 3, 1986 (age 39)

Birth place: Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

29 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
2012 129 Short Fiction Difficult at Parties Unstuck, #2
January 2013 Short Fiction Inventory Strange Horizons, 14 January 2013
September 2013 Short Fiction We Were Never Alone in Space Shimmer, Number 17
April 2014 |22 Interview Author Spotlight: Carmen Maria Machado Lightspeed, April 2014
April 2014 |2 Short Fiction Observations About Eggs from the Man Sitting Next to Me on a Flight from Chicago, Illinois to Cedar Rapids, Iowa Lightspeed, April 2014
July 2014 |22 Interview Author Spotlight: Carmen Maria Machado Lightspeed, July 2014
July 2014 |6 Short Fiction Help Me Follow My Sister into the Land of the Dead Lightspeed, July 2014
November 2014 |6 Short Fiction Mothers Interfictions Online, November 2014
November 2014 |32 Short Fiction The Husband Stitch Granta, Autumn 2014
November 2014 Review We Are All Completely Fine Strange Horizons, 10 November 2014
January 2015 Essay 2014 in Review Strange Horizons, 5 January 2015
February 2015 |12 Interview Author Spotlight: Carmen Maria Machado Nightmare Magazine, February 2015
February 2015 |2 Short Fiction Descent Nightmare Magazine, February 2015
July 2015 4 Short Fiction I Bury Myself Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, July 2015
September 2015 24 Review Observations About Eggs from the Man Sitting Next to Me on a Flight from Chicago, Illinois to Cedar Rapids, Iowa Mothership Zeta, Issue 0
September 2016 |15 Interview Interview: Carmen Maria Machado Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2016
September 2016 |1 Short Fiction My Body, Herself Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2016
November 2016 |10.3 Review My Body, Herself Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, November-December 2016
2017 104 Short Fiction Blur Tin House Magazine, Issue 72, Summer 2017
January 2017 Essay 2016 in Review Part 2 Strange Horizons, 2 January 2017
February 2018 15 Review Her Body and Other Parties Locus, #685 February 2018
February 2018 |14 Interview Interview: Carmen Maria Machado Lightspeed, February 2018
April 2018 |5 Short Fiction Horror Story Nightmare Magazine, April 2018
April 2018 |7 Short Fiction The Old Women Who Were Skinned Lightspeed, April 2018
June 2018 Short Fiction A Brief and Fearful Star Slate, June 27, 2018
January 2020 54 Review The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 Galaxy's Edge, January 2020
March 2020 |8 Short Fiction There and Back Again Nightmare Magazine, March 2020
January 2021 |9 Short Fiction The Things Eric Eats Before He Eats Himself Nightmare Magazine, January 2021
July 2023 C4|6 Review The Lottery The New York Times, July 4, 2023

3 English-language books

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2015 Hugo Award Best Novelette The Husband Stitch Nominee
2015 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF The Husband Stitch Nominee
2015 Nebula Award Novelette The Husband Stitch Nominee
2015 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette The Husband Stitch Nominee
2017 British Science Fiction Award Best Short Fiction The Resident Nominee
2017 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF Her Body and Other Parties Nominee
2017 Lambda Literary Awards Lesbian Fiction Her Body and Other Parties Winner
2017 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story My Body, Herself Nominee
2018 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Her Body and Other Parties Finalist
2018 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette The Resident Nominee
2018 Shirley Jackson Award Best Collection Her Body and Other Parties Winner
2018 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novelette The Resident Nominee
2018 Shirley Jackson Award Best Short Fiction Blur Nominee
2018 World Fantasy Award Best Collection Her Body and Other Parties Nominee
2020 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nouvelle étrangère Son corps et autres célébrations Nominee
2020 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Traduction Son corps et autres célébrations Nominee
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Anthology The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 Nominee
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story The Things Eric Eats Before He Eats Himself Nominee

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop (class of 2012), Carmen currently lives in Philadelphia with her wife. In 2012, she attended Clarion Workshop. As of 2019, she teaches creative writing (fiction and CNF) and speculative fiction at the University of Pennsylvania. A 2019 Guggenheim fellow (fiction). Her paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Cuba.

In Dec2019 her comic series THE LOW, LOW WOODS (6 books\collected) started - from DC Comics' Black Label imprint Joe Hill Presents/Hill House Comics.

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