Carmen Maria Machado to visit NMU

MARQUETTE — Fiction writer Carmen Maria Machado will visit Northern Michigan University to read from her works and give a presentation at 7:30 p.m. April 11 in 1322 Jamrich Hall.

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, the World Fantasy Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. It was the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, 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.”

Her essays, fiction and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Tin House, VQR, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, and elsewhere.

Machado holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She 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 lives in Philadelphia, where she is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

Superiorland Woodturners to meet

MARQUETTE — The Superiorland Woodturners will meet Tuesday in the lower level of the Peter White Public Library.

The turners will gather at 6:30 p.m. to share their work and meet new members prior to the 7 p.m. meeting. The program this month will feature club member Dennis Carter who will share his knowledge about how to use resins in turning. The public is invited to attend. For more information call 249-5308.

‘A Century of Suffrage’ presented

MARQUETTE — The Historical Society of Michigan presents “Votes for Women: A Century of Suffrage” with author Elizabeth Ann Homer as part of History Hounds Lecture Series. The program will be viewable via teleconference at Northern Michigan University’s Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center.

Homer will cover the women and men who won universal suffrage in the United States, the important figures who composed the pro-suffrage coalition and the people who opposed their mission. The free event is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 10 in 165 Gries Hall.

Homer has been a curator for over 20 years in Lansing, first at the Michigan Women’s Historical Center and Hall of Fame and then at the Turner-Dodge House & Historical Center.