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Michael Cisco

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Michael Cisco (born October 13, 1970) is a writer and teacher currently living in New York City. He is known for his first novel, The Divinity Student, winner of the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999. His novel The Great Lover was nominated for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel of the Year, and declared the Best Weird Novel of 2011 by the Weird Fiction Review. His experimental novel UNLANGUAGE was nominated for Best Horror Novel by Locus in 2019. He has published in anthologies edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Ellen Datlow, among others, and his work has been translated into German, French, Spanish, and Italian. His scholarly monograph, Weird Fiction: A Genre Study, will be published in early 2022 by Palgrave Macmillan. He teaches at CUNY Hostos in New York City.

Michael Cisco Books

The Two Musics book cover

The Two Musics

Michael Cisco
Blood and Other Cravings book cover

Blood and Other Cravings

Ellen Datlow
Pest book cover

Pest

Michael Cisco
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Lovecraft Unbound

Ellen Datlow
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Wonder and Glory Forever

Nick Mamatas
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