Michael Cisco

Michael Cisco (b. 1970) is an author and literary critic who both writes and studies weird fiction. Several of his short stories connect to the Cthulhu Mythos. He has described his writing as "de-genred."The London Magazine, "Michael Cisco on Weird Fiction, Cheerful Nihilism and Sex in Literature," 2020.
Cisco's first novel, The Divinity Student, won of the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999. He has since written 12 more novels, including The Great Lover, which was named the Best Weird Novel of 2011 by the Weird Fiction Review.
Author Jeff VanderMeer writes that Cisco "has forged a singular path in creating visionary, phantasmagorical settings, uniquely alienated anti-heroes, and genuinely creepy happenings—while also exhibiting a healthy absurdism and dark sense of humor."The Literary Hub, "American Kafka? The Weird, Uncanny Work of Michael Cisco," by Jeff VanderMeer, May 27, 2015. Author China Miéville calls him "one of the key figures in the experimental fantastic."The Guardian, "On My Radar: China Miéville’s Cultural Highlights," by Kathryn Bromwich, February 14, 2016.
Cisco has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College (1992), an M.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo (1994), and an MPhil. (2002) and PhD. in English (2004) from New York University. Since 2008, he has taught English at Hostos Community College, part of the City University of New York; one of his courses is "Literature of the Macabre and the Supernatural."Hostos Community College, "Michael Cisco, PhD." 
== Selected Bibliography ==
=== Fiction ===
* "The Water Nymphs" (1996)
* "Translation" (1998)
* "He Will Be There" (1999)
* "The Night of the Night" (2002)
* "Herbert West--Reincarnated" (round-robin, 2000)
* "What He Chanced to Mould in Play" (2007)
* "The Firebrands of Torment" (2007)
* "I Will Teach You" (2007)
* "Ice Age of Dreams" (2007)
* “Machines of Concrete Light and Dark” (2009)
* "Violence, Child of Trust" (2010)
* "Non Omnis Moriar" (2016)
* "Void Kiss" (2022)
=== Nonfiction ===
* "Lovecraft and the Birth of Tragedy" (1991)
* "'New Weird': I Think We're the Scene" (2008)
* "The Supernatural: Concepts and Genre" (2011)
* "The Shadow over 'The Lurking Fear'" (2012)
* Weird Fiction: A Genre Study (2022)
=== Gaming Supplements ===
* Mortal Coils (1998, contributor)
== External Link ==
* Michael Cisco at Wikipedia
* Michael Cisco at Internet Speculative Fiction Database
== References ==
Category:Critics
Category:Expanded Mythos Authors
Category:Non-Fiction Authors
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