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Carmen Maria Machado

March 5, 2019 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

An Evening with Carmen Maria Machado at Suffolk University. 120 Tremont Street, 5th Floor, Blue Sky Lounge, This event is free and open to the public.

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and finalist for the National Book Award. The Chicago Tribune says Her Body and Other Parties is, “Simultaneously hot and chilling, these stories leave the reader enthralled and shaken,” and The New York Times says of the collection, “It’s a wild thing, this book, covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi…” She is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in Philadelphia with her wife. Her memoir In the Dream House is forthcoming in 2019 from Graywolf Press.

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Date:
March 5, 2019
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Organizer

Suffolk University, English Department
Phone:
617-573-8271
Email:
english@suffolk.edu
Website:
http://www.suffolk.edu/english/

Venue

Sargent Hall, Suffolk University
120 Tremont St., Room 385
Boston, 02108 United States
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Website:
www.suffolk.edu

Did You Know?

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