Carmen Maria Machado was born July 3, 1986, in Allentown, Pennsylvania."The metafictional, liminal, lyrical ways of writer Carmen Maria Machado" by Sabrina Vourvoulias, AL DÍA News, December 3, 2015. Machado's paternal grandfather left Santa Clara, Cuba for the United States when he was 18, gaining U.S. citizenship after serving in the Korean War. He worked in the United States Patent Office and met his future wife when she immigrated to the U.S. from Austria after World War II.
