Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado is an accomplished American author, critic, and essayist. She has gained recognition for her work in fiction and nonfiction, and has received numerous awards for her writing. Some of her most notable awards include the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, and the Shirley Jackson Award.

Machado grew up in Allentown, a town located to the north of Philadelphia. Her father is the son of immigrants, with her grandfather having moved to the United States from Cuba when he was 18 years old. Her grandfather worked in the Patent Office of the US and met his future wife, who had moved to the United States from Austria following the Second World War.

In addition to her award-winning short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, Machado has published her writing in a variety of well-known publications. These include Granta, The New Yorker, Lightspeed Magazine, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her work has been nominated for several prestigious awards, including the Nebula and National Book awards. Machado is also a distinguished essayist and critic, and her writing has been featured in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, The New Voices of Fantasy, Best Weird Fiction of the Year, and Best Women's Erotica.

Machado is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has received fellowships and residencies from the Michener-Copernicus Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the CINTAS Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She currently holds the position of Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and resides in Philadelphia with her wife.
Short Stories/Novellas
# Title Year
1 Bloody Summer: Big Cats in the Children's Hand-Games of Never-Again, Pennsylvania 2022
Collections
# Title Year
1 Her Body and Other Parties 2017
Hill House Comics Books
# Title Year
1 The Low, Low Woods 2020
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women (With: Jane Smiley, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang) 2019
2 March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women 2019
3 In the Dream House 2019
Best American Experimental Writing Books
# Title Year
1 Bax 2015 2016
2 Bax 2015 (By: Seth Abramson, Jesse Damiani, Douglas Kearney) 2016
3 Bax 2016 (By: Seth Abramson) 2017
4 Bax 2016 2017
5 Bax 2018 (By: Seth Abramson, Jesse Damiani, Myung Mi Kim) 2018
6 Bax 2018 2018
7 Bax 2020 (With: Seth Abramson, Jesse Damiani, Joyelle McSweeney) 2020
8 Bax 2020 2020
Best Horror of the Year Books
# Title Year
1 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009
2 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010
3 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011
4 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012
5 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five 2013
6 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014
7 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015
8 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016
9 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine 2017
10 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018
11 The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction 2018
12 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019
13 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020
14 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021
15 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 2022
16 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen 2024
17 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen 2024
18 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen 2025
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Books
# Title Year
1 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 12 2003
2 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 13 2003
3 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 14 2003
4 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 15 2005
5 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 16 2005
6 Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 17 2005
7 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 18 2006
8 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 19 2006
9 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 20 2007
10 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 21 2007
11 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 22 2008
12 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 23 2008
13 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 24 2009
14 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 25 2009
15 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, No.26 December 2010 2010
16 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 27 2011
17 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 28 2012
18 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 29 2013
19 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 30 2013
20 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 31 2014
21 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 33 2015
22 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 34 2016
23 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 36 2017
24 Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 37 2018
25 Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 38 2018
26 Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 42 2020
27 Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 45 2022
28 Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 43 2023
Carmen Maria Machado Anthologies
# Title Year
1 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One 2009
2 Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond 2013
3 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two 2010
4 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011
5 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four 2012
6 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five 2013
7 The New Voices of Fantasy 2013
8 Future Tense Fiction 2016
9 Mothership 2013
10 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 2014
11 Lightspeed Magazine, July 2014 2014
12 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven 2015
13 Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018
14 The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 2015
15 The Long List Anthology 2015
16 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight 2016
17 Grave Predictions 2016
18 Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 107, April 2019 2019
19 Latin@ Rising 2017
20 People of Color Flash Anthology 2017
21 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine 2017
22 Nightmare Magazine 67: April 2018 2018
23 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten 2018
24 Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers 2019
25 PEN America Issue 21: Mythologies 2018
26 The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction 2018
27 What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence 2019
28 PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 2019
29 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven 2019
30 The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 2019
31 Eat Joy 2019
32 The Best of Uncanny 2019
33 Latinx Rising 2020
34 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020
35 Fat and Queer 2021
36 Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond 2021
37 Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology 2021
38 Body Shocks 2021
39 The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen 2021
40 This Is Life 2022
41 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen 2022
42 It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror 2022
43 Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games 2023
44 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen 2024
45 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen 2024
46 The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen 2025