Michael Cisco (born October 13, 1970) is an American writer, Deleuzian academic, and teacher 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. Biography Michael Terry Cisco was born and raised in Glendale, California. His father worked as an inventor and principal scientist for the Hughes Aircraft Company and his mother worked as photographer and graphic designer for Glendale Community College's Public Information Office. Cisco attended Sarah Lawrence College as an undergraduate, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1992. As part of his undergraduate studies, Cisco studied at Oxford University for one year. He obtained his master's degree from SUNY Buffalo in 1994 and both his Masters of Philosophy in 2002 and PhD in 2004 at New York University. Cisco is a professor at the City University of New York. Bibliography Novels The Divinity Student (1999) The Tyrant (2003) The San Veneficio Canon (2004) The Traitor (2007) The Narrator (2010) The Great Lover (2011) Celebrant (2012) Member (2013) The Golem (2013) [e-Book, Cheeky Frawg] Animal Money (2015) Wretch of the Sun (2016) Unlanguage (2018) Ethics (2022) Pest (2023) (forthcoming from CLASH Books) Nonfiction Weird Fiction: A Genre Study (2022) Collections Secret Hours (2007) Antisocieties (2021) Chapbooks The Knife Dance (2016) Do You Mind if We Dance with Your Legs? (2020) Translations Headache by Julio Cortázar (2014) The Sound of the Mill by Marcel Béalu (2014) The Supper by Alfonso Reyes (2015) Short fiction Uncollected Letter (1996) The Water Nymphs (1996) Reliquaries (1997) Translation (1998) For No Eyes (1998) He Will Be There (1999) Herbert West--Reincarnated Part VI: The Chaos into Time (2000) The Genius of Assassins (2002) Clear Rice Sickness (2003) Ledru's Disease (2003) Noumenal Fluke (2003) The House of Solemn Children (A Broken Story) (2003) Zschokke's Chancres (2003) The Scream (2003) Reminiscences (2003) The Life of Dr. Thackery T. Lambshead (1900-) (2003) The City of God (2004) Dr. Bondi's Methods (2007) I Will Teach You (2007) Ice Age of Dreams (2007) The Chaos Into Time (2007) The Death of Edgar Allan Poe (2007) The Depredations of Mur