![]() ![]() National Book Award / LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction / PEN/Robert W. Carmen Maria Machados debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circles John Leonard Prize. Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado, is a love letter to an obstinate genre that won’t be gentrified. National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize / / Shirley Jackson Award / Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction / Bard Fiction Prize / American Booksellers Association's Indies Choice Book Awards / New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association's Book of the Year / Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize / Bisexual Book Award for Fiction / Crawford Award Her Body and Other Parties is the debut short story collection from award-winning writer Carmen Maria Machado. ![]() It’s a wild thing, this book, covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi, and borrowing from science fiction, queer theory and horror. ![]() My debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was published by Graywolf Press in 2017. 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." A television show based on Her Body and Other Parties is currently in development at FX. Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado, is a love letter to an obstinate genre that won’t be gentrified. ![]()
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