Carmen Maria Machado's work has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, NPR, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Nebula Award and a Shirley Jackson Award, and was a finalist for the Calvino Prize. She lives in Philadelphia.
Collections
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (2017)
Future Tense (2019) (with Charlie Jane Anders, Madeline Ashby, Paolo Bacigalupi, Meg Elison, Lee Konstantinou, Maureen F McHugh, Annalee Newitz, Nnedi Okorafor, Deji Bryce Olukotun, Mark Oshiro, Hannu Rajaniemi, Emily St. John Mandel and Mark Stasenko)
Future Tense (2019) (with Charlie Jane Anders, Madeline Ashby, Paolo Bacigalupi, Meg Elison, Lee Konstantinou, Maureen F McHugh, Annalee Newitz, Nnedi Okorafor, Deji Bryce Olukotun, Mark Oshiro, Hannu Rajaniemi, Emily St. John Mandel and Mark Stasenko)
Anthologies edited
The Long List Anthology (2015) (with Usman T. Malik, Sarah Pinsker and David Steffen)
Grave Predictions (2016) (with Drew Ford)
PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 (2019) (with Danielle Evans)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 (2019) (with John Joseph Adams)
Grave Predictions (2016) (with Drew Ford)
PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 (2019) (with Danielle Evans)
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 (2019) (with John Joseph Adams)
Non fiction
Awards
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Carmen Maria Machado recommends

The Merry Spinster (2018)
Mallory Ortberg
"Dear Reader: It would, truthfully, be simplest to call the stories in THE MERRY SPINSTER 'retellings, ' but that word does not adequately capture their dark alchemy. Mallory Ortberg has created a Frankenstein's monster of familiar narratives. . .[that swings] between Terry Pratchett's satirical jocularity and Angela Carter's sinister, shrewd storytelling, and the result is gorgeous, unsettling, splenic, cruel, and wickedly smart. I've never read anything quite like them, and I bet, Dear Reader, that you haven't either."

Blackfish City (2018)
Sam J Miller
"A floating Arctic city; nano-bonded orcas and polar bears; an Earth violently reshaped by the mistakes we’re making right now I haven’t been this swept away by imagination and worldbuilding since Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. A gorgeous, queer, muscular novel."

Everything Under (2018)
Daisy Johnson
"Surprising, gorgeously written, and profoundly unsettling, this genderfluid retelling of Oedipus Rex will sink into your bones and stay there."

The Mere Wife (2018)
Maria Dahvana Headley
"Maria Dahvana Headley is a gift, a genius, and an absolute wonder; I would follow her anywhere."

The Lonesome Bodybuilder (2018)
Yukiko Motoya
"Charming, bizarre, and uncanny, The Lonesome Bodybuilder is Etgar Keret by way of Yoko Ogawa. I'd follow Yukiko Motoya anywhere she wanted to take me."

A Cosmology of Monsters (2019)
Shaun Hamill
"A monster stalks a family across generations; a hidden city beckons from beyond perception; trauma and human frailty and loss bear their terrible fangs. . . . A Cosmology of Monsters is as weird and compelling and ambitious a horror novel as you could possibly want."
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