Michael Cisco | |
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Born | Glendale, California, U.S. | October 13, 1970
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | New York University |
Period | 1999–present |
Genre | Horror Fiction, dark fantasy, weird fiction, surrealism, phantasmagoria |
Literary movement | New Weird |
Spouse |
Farah Rose Smith (m. 2019) |
Website | |
michaelcisco |
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]