What is that connects the sensual and the monstrous? Is there a right way to be creative? And how does a hypochondriac make it through a pandemic? All that and more as Liv and Jasmin talk to Carmen Maria Machado! Citations - Generations of Mentorship: Conversations With L.G.B.T.Q. Elders by Jamal Jordan for The New York Times - On writing about whatever you want by Carmen Maria Machado for The Creative Independent - Carmen Maria Machado Takes Us 'In The Dream House' by Code Switch - The artist Jasmin mentioned is Tashina Suzuki! Bio Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House 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 many awards, including the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, and the Shirley Jackson Award. 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." Credits - Hosts: Jasmin Savoy Brown and Liv Hewson - Producer: Eric Silver - Co-Producers: Jasmin Savoy Brown and Liv Hewson - Editor, Engineer & Sound Designer: Mischa Stanton - Executive Producer: Amanda McLoughlin - Researcher: Gina Cherelus - Created by: Jasmin Savoy Brown - Produced by: Multitude & Netflix Find Us Online - Twitter: @Most - Instagram: @Most