Michael Cisco

Michael Cisco
Born (1970-10-13) October 13, 1970 (age 54)
Glendale, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • academic
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNew York University
Period1999–present
GenreHorror Fiction, dark fantasy, weird fiction, surrealism, phantasmagoria
Literary movementNew Weird
Spouse
Farah Rose Smith
(m. 2019)
Website
michaelcisco.com

Michael Cisco (born October 13, 1970) is an American writer, Deleuzian academic, and teacher currently living in New York City.[1] He is best 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.[2] He has described his work as "de-genred" fiction.[3]

  1. ^ Magazine, The London (2020-09-08). "Interview | Michael Cisco on Weird Fiction, Cheerful Nihilism and Sex in Literature". The London Magazine. Retrieved 2023-04-22.
  2. ^ Weird Fiction Review
  3. ^ Moreland, Sean (2013-11-22). "An Interview with Michael Cisco". Postscripts to Darkness.