A Reading by Bard Fiction Prize Winner Carmen Maria Machado
Monday, February 19, 2018
Bitó Conservatory Building
7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Carmen Maria Machado, Bard Fiction Prize recipient and writer in residence at Bard College, will read from recent work. The reading is free and open to the public.
Carmen Maria Machado received the Bard Fiction Prize for her debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press, 2017). In the collection, long-listed for the 2017 National Book Award and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Machado shapes startling, mind-bending narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. She is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, Electric Literature, NPR Books, and elsewhere. Her memoir, House in Indiana, is forthcoming in 2019 from Graywolf Press.
Machado holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residences from the Michener-Copernicus Foundation, CINTAS Foundation, University of Iowa, Yaddo Corporation, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts, among others. She is an artist in residence at the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.
For more information, call 845-758-7087.
Time: 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Bitó Conservatory Building