Carmen in the dreamhouse6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() And Carmen often finds herself uttering, “Oh, that’s clearly a ghost.”Ĭarmen and Val met in 2011. A prober of anxieties with a standup comedy practice, Marne writes more straightforwardly realist short stories and nonfiction essays. ![]() ![]() Val, whose primary craft is the coming-of-age tale, is working on a YA novel about teenage lesbian suffragettes set in 1913 Philadelphia. Carmen is known around the house as “big tall vampire lady.”Įven though Carmen is 5’ 8”, she towers over her wife Val Howlett, and their partner, Marne Litfin. Carmen Maria Machado’s first short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties-an inventory of the monstrous that includes fabulist L aw & Order fanfiction and a ribbon cloaking an unspeakable secret-developed a broad cult following. The three of them live in a tall, old Victorian home. ![]()
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