Reading & Resource Series: Her Body and Other Parties: Author and Literature

Born in 1986, Carmen Maria Machado has published four books, Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order (2013); Her Body and Other Parties (2017); In the Dream House (2019); and a graphic novel The Low, Low Woods (2020). She has also published essays, literary criticisms, short stories, poetry and more. Her work has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. She is also a National Book Award finalist. Machado holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. 

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