吃瓜tv Distinguished Writers Series Featuring Carmen Maria Machado
Join bestselling author of聽In the Dream House聽for a virtual author talk.
吃瓜tv will host a Distinguished Writers Series featuring , author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties.
The event takes place virtually on Wednesday, March 17 at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom. The event is FREE and open to the public. .
吃瓜tv Carmen Maria Machado
Her Body and Other Parties, Machado's debut short story collection, was published in 2017. The New York Times listed the collection 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."
Named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NPR Books, PBS Books, Newsweek, Buzzfeed, Slate, and Vox, Her Body and Other Parties was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize.
Her next book, the bestselling memoir In the Dream House, was published in 2018 and was named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, TIME Magazine, the New York Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, and The Atlantic. In the Dream House was the winner of the Lambda Literary Award and the Judy Grahn Award.
鈥淐armen Maria Machado鈥檚 works have been widely recognized for their excellence and unique voice,鈥 said Dr. Rochelle Robbins, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at 吃瓜tv. 鈥淪he evokes the experience of women in relationships in ways that almost defy words, but she nevertheless uses words to do it. I am excited for our students to see how an author can imply so many layers of meaning and leave the reader with so many insights through writing.鈥
Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, Harper鈥檚 Bazaar, and elsewhere. DC Comics published her limited-run comics series, The Low Low Woods, from 2019-2020.
Machado holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers鈥 Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She lives in Philadelphia and is the Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.
The 吃瓜tv Distinguished Writers Series is dedicated to promoting encouraging a variety of perspectives, civic engagement, and critical thinking, as well as furthering 吃瓜tv鈥檚 mission and core values of community, respect, integrity, experiential learning, vision, and service.