The Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Lecture Presents an Evening with Carmen Maria Machado

The Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Lecture Presents an Evening with Carmen Maria Machado

Defying and blending genres such as surrealism, fantasy, and horror, Carmen Maria Machado’s writing has been compared to that of Shirley Jackson, Kelly Link and Angela Carter, but with a voice uniquely her own.

Machado grew up in a household where storytelling was always present, and she has been writing her whole life. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.

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 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 part of “The New Vanguard,” “15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.”

Her essays, fiction, 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 and Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere.

Copies of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties, will be available for purchase at Kresge Auditorium and Ms. Machado will be on hand to sign copies immediately following the talk.

Sponsored by the Kennth V. Santagata Memorial Fund.

For more information, contact Jenn Berube at jberube@bowdoin.edu or 207-725-3928.

Open to the public free of charge.

A livestream of this talk will be available on Bowdoin's live events website: https://www.bowdoin.edu/live/index.html

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Co-hosted with: Sexuality, Women, and Gender Center (SWAG), Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies

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