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Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the memoir In the Dream House and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize the Shirley Jackson Award and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018 the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of The New Vanguard one of 15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century. Her essays fiction and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker the New York Times Granta Harper's Bazaar Tin House VQR Conjunctions McSweeney's Quarterly Concern The Believer Guernica Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy Best American Nonrequired Reading and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation Michener-Copernicus Foundation Elizabeth George Foundation CINTAS Foundation Yaddo Hedgebrook and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.