Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado is an American author, essayist, and critic who writes both fiction and nonfiction. She is best known for Her Body and Other Parties, a short story collection that mixes magical realism with the strange and unsettling, and for the memoir In the Dream House, which won the 2021 Folio Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker and Granta, and she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette.