The Common Foundation – 2018 Author Postcard Auction
Auction Ends: Nov 29, 2018 07:00 PM EST

Memorabilia

Personalized Postcard from Carmen Maria Machado

Item Number
104
Estimated Value
Priceless
Sold
430 USD to tlennon
Number of Bids
39  -  Bid History

Item Description

Receive a handwritten note from the author of National Book Award finalist Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."

She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Michener-Copernicus Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the CINTAS Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.

Item Special Note

Personalized postcards make great gifts for the holidays!