Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado was born in Pennsylvania in 1986. Stories were a large part of her childhood, thanks partly to her Cuban grandfather carrying on the oral tradition. She attended American University in Washington, D.C. before undertaking an MFA in Creative Writing at Iowa University. After leaving Iowa, Machado moved to Pennsylvania where she lived with her wife, though they have now separated. Machado frequently takes up writing residencies throughout the U.S. and has won a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.