![]() Machado’s stories, appearing in such magazines as Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Granta, and Tin House, had blown readers away. Of course, overnight acclaim is not really sudden. On Saturday afternoon Machado would take part in both a reading by the fiction honorees and a panel on writing and identity. After the November 15th National Book Foundation’s awards ceremony in New York, all of the winners and finalists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature came to Miami for a Friday evening celebration at the Book Fair. ![]() Her first book, the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, was published by Graywolf Press in October, accompanied by raves from established writers from all parts of the galaxy of fiction, and was chosen as a National Book Award finalist. ![]() Carmen Maria Machado came to the Miami Book Fair last November surrounded by the buzz of the book world. ![]()
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