Michael Cisco

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

Michael Cisco
Born (1970-10-13) October 13, 1970
Glendale, California, United States
OccupationNovelist, Short story writer, Academic, Translator
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNew York University
Period1999–present
GenreHorror Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Weird Fiction, Surrealism, Phantasmagoria
SpouseFarah Rose Smith (m. 2019)
Website
michaelcisco.com


Bibliography
  • The Divinity Student (1999) ISBN 0-9652200-1-X
  • The Tyrant (2003) ISBN 1-894815-85-8
  • The San Veneficio Canon (2004) ISBN 1-894815-67-X
  • The Traitor (2007) ISBN 0-8095-7235-4
  • Secret Hours (2007) ISBN 0-9789911-0-9
  • The Narrator (2010) ISBN 978-0-9846037-4-9
  • The Great Lover (2011) ISBN 978-1-907681-06-6
  • Celebrant (2012) ISBN 978-1907681158
  • Member (2013) ISBN 978-1907681233
  • The Golem (2013) [e-Book, Cheeky Frawg]
  • Animal Money (2015) ISBN 978-1621052128
  • Wretch of the Sun (2016) ISBN 978-161498-166-4
  • Unlanguage (2018) ISBN 978-1621052661
  • Do You Mind if We Dance with Your Legs? (2020)
  • Ethics (2020)
  • Antisocieties (2021)

Cisco's work can also be found in The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, Album Zutique, Leviathan III, Leviathan IV, Phantom, Lovecraft Unbound, Last Drink Bird Head, Cinnabar's Gnosis: A Homage to Gustav Meyrink, Black Wings, The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, The Master in the Cafe Morphine: A Homage to Mikhail Bulgakov, Blood and Other Cravings, DADAOISM, This Hermetic Legislature: A Homage to Bruno Schulz, and The Weird.

His essay on author Sadeq Hedayat, "Eternal Recurrence in The Blind Owl," appeared in the journal, Iranian Studies[3] Other critical articles by Cisco have appeared in The New Weird, The Encyclopedia of the Vampire, The Weird Fiction Review, and Lovecraft Studies.

Centipede Press has published a limited edition box set, composed of four novels and a collection of short fiction.

All four novels are published for the first time in individual hardcover editions. Each book features a new introduction by Jeffrey Ford (The Traitor), Rhys Hughes (The Tyrant), Joseph S. Pulver (Secret Hours), Paul Tremblay (The Golem) and Ann VanderMeer (The Divinity Student).

Dim Shores published the novella The Knife Dance in 2016. The project was curated by Joseph S. Pulver.

Nightscape Press will release Cisco's novella, Do You Mind if We Dance with Your Legs? in 2020 for their charitable chapbook series. One-third of all physical chapbook sales will benefit the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

Awards and nominations

The Divinity Student won the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999.

The Great Lover was nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award in 2012.

Unlanguage was nominated for Best Horror Novel by Locus in 2019.

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See also
  • List of horror fiction authors

References
  1. Weird Fiction Review
  2. Moreland, Sean (2013-11-22). "An Interview with Michael Cisco". Postscripts to Darkness.
  3. Iranian Studies (2010) ISSN 1475-4819 (electronic) ISSN 0021-0862 (paper) Archived May 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine


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