A Conversation with Carmen Maria Machado

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“I enter into the archive that domestic abuse between partners who share a gender identity is both possible and not uncommon, and that it can look something like this. I speak into the silence. I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice; measure the emptiness by its small sound.” 

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House (2019).

Join us in the Bowland Auditorium for a virtual conversation with the acclaimed author Carmen Maria Machado. As part of the University of York’s international conference on Narratives of Coercive Control, Machado will discuss her bestselling memoir In the Dream House. Described as a “tender, incandescent memoir like no other” (Observer) and “crucial queer testimony” (Alex Marzano-Lesnevich), In the Dream House is both a personal account of an abusive relationship and a vital contribution to the LGBTQ+ archive. 

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties (2017). 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, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, among others. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, The Believer, Guernica, and elsewhere. She holds 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.

This event is hosted by the Coercive Control: From Literature into Law research network and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).