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Hello and welcome to episode 280 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Carmen Maria Machado, who you may remember from our panel on The Best

American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 back in episode 177, and our panel on

Ghostbusters 2016 back in episode 213.

She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop

and is currently the artist and residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the New Yorker,

Granta, Tin House, Year's Best Weird Fiction, and Best Women's

erotica.

Ant will be speaking with her today about her debut book, A Short Story Collection

called Her Body and Other Parties. And today's show is brought to you by

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