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

Author's Profile

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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.

In addition to her website, Wikipedia profile, Internet Speculative Fiction Database profile, and other online sources, learn more about Carmen Maria Machado's life and work using University of Louisville Library databases.

Literary Profiles, Criticisms, Reviews, and More:

Contemporary Authors
Provides biographical details on thousands of modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Signed essays written by scholars provide essential context for understanding the careers and writings of more than 12,000 authors from all time periods and from all parts of the world.
JSTOR
Full-text journal articles relating to African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, botany, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology and statistics. Provides access to millions of high-quality images of artistic works, cultural objects, and the built environment previously available on Artstor Digital Library. 1600s - present.
Literature Online (LION)
Combines the texts of over 355,000 literary works with key criticism and reference resources. 1603 - present.
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes books and articles on modern languages and literature, linguistics, folklore, and other related topics. 1926 - present.
Novelist
A comprehensive readers' advisory solution for fiction lovers. With an intuitive interface and extensive proprietary content, NoveList answers the question: What should I read next?