Facts: - debut works: '' the divinity student '' - period: 1999 -- present - influences: thomas , julio cortazar , bruno schulz , marcel proust , bernhard h. p. lovecraft , franz kafka , edgar allan poe , william s. burroughs , samuel beckett - genre: horror fiction , dark fantasy - birth date: 13 october 1970 - name: michael cisco - nationality: american - image: michael cisco.jpg - birth place: new -lrb- current residence -rrb- york city , new york , united states - occupation: novelist , short story writer , academic Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of michael cisco .
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michael cisco -lrb- born october 13 , 1970 -rrb- is an american writer , 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 .he has described his work as '' de-genred '' fiction .