Carmen Maria Machado
- Price
- $12*
- Genre
- Talk
- Season
- Winter/Spring 2026
- DATE
- JAN 15
- IN-PERSON
- THU, 8 PM
- STREAM
- THU, 8 PM (PT)
- RUNTIME
- Approx. 90 minutes, no intermission
- PROGRAM
- Not yet available
* Discounts available for REDCAT members, students & the CalArts faculty and staff
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About
An evening of wildly innovative, genre-bending writing with Carmen Maria Machado. Machado is a fiction writer and memoirist whose signature blend of horror writing, sci-fi, fantasy, and psychological realism has worked to transform our contemporary literary landscape. In 2018, The New York Times listed Machado’s 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.” Machado’s acclaimed memoir, In the Dream House (2019), mixes styles and breaks conventions to tell the tale of an abusive relationship, and was hailed as “breathlessly inventive” by The New Yorker. 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 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize.
[Machado’s] writing, while clear, is full of nameless currents, hidden transactions between pleasure and terror.
—
Katy Waldman, The New Yorker
Presented by REDCAT, the MFA Program in Creative Writing of California Institute of the Arts, and the Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence Program.
about the artist
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House, the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and the award-winning 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 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, 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, poetry, and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & 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, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the former Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.
