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born 1986 United States

Carmen Maria Machado (born July 3, 1986) is an American short story author, essayist, and critic from Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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I usually start from a concept, an idea, a form, a question, or a (sub)genre. Never a character or a setting. And I don’t write into nothing; I always have somewhere I’m directing my thoughts.

Sometimes stories just need something to hold on to, and form is a way of doing that. Sometimes you’re looking at a story and you’re like, What comes next? But if I say I have to add an item to the list, another lover or an episode of SVU…it’s easier.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carmen Maria Machado (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.