Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado is an American author whose fiction and nonfiction have redefined the boundaries of literary horror and memoir. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Bard Fiction Prize. Her Body And Other Parties is her debut short story collection — a genre-defying blend of horror, science fiction, fairy tales, and erotica that explores women's bodies, desires, and fears. The collection was a finalist for the National Book Award and announced Machado as one of the most original voices in American fiction. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers some of the most inventive, genre-defying fiction being written today — stories that will haunt, disturb, and delight you.