Carmen Maria Machado Bio

This week's special guest is...Carmen Maria Machado!

This month, not only are we raving about the current Gamut Kickstarter (learn more here), but we are also celebrating Women in Horror Month (learn more here). I'm honored and excited that this week's guest is the multi-talented Carmen Maria Machado. 

Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. She is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, AGNI, NPR, Los Angeles Review of Books, VICE, and elsewhere. Her stories have been reprinted in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015 and Year’s Best Weird Fiction. She has been the recipient of many fellowships, including the Elizabeth George Foundation Fellowship and the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship, and nominated for both a Nebula Award and a Shirley Jackson 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. Visit her online at: http://carmenmariamachado.com/.

And be sure to come back to the site on Thursday to read the interview!