Michael Cisco


Michael Cisco 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. He has described his work as "de-genred" fiction.

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.