Carmen Maria Machado on Surviving Her Memoir

“I had to pass the book like a kidney stone. I had to get it out of my system. I had to get it out of my own way because I had other things I wanted to do… It feels seared into my timeline like any any other fact about me.”

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of In The Dream House, and Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife.

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