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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.
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“This is my 1st novel by Cisco so I didn’t know what to expect. I’ve been reading horror fiction for decades, but when it comes to “weird fiction” as a genre by itself, I’m pretty new to it.
What Cisco does so well is layer and paint a very vivid picture word by word, sentence by sentence until it overwhelms the reader. It is as if someone had the ability to recall a psychedelic experience to the tiniest detail and put it on paper.
I’m not sure if I enjoyed this, but I can say that I’ll be thinking about it for a long time and sometimes that is the best compliment.”
About Michael Cisco
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.
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