Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House, the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, 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." Learn more! Tickets will be available starting September 11. Book signing to follow. Books available to purchase from Under the Umbrella Bookstore. PARTNERS & SPONSORS: Under the Umbrella Bookstore Utah Humanities Utah Humanities Book Festival R. Harold Burton Foundation The King's English Book Shop College Of Humanities Equity, Diversity & Inclusion B. W. Bastian Foundation PEN America Zoo, Arts & Parks Program Salt Lake City Arts Council