Editing Michael Cisco (section)

{{short description|American novelist}}

{{Infobox writer
| name             = Michael Cisco
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| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1970|10|13}}
| birth_place      = [[Glendale, California]], U.S.
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| occupation       = {{flatlist|
* Novelist
* short story writer
* academic
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| nationality      = American
| period           = 1999–present
| genre            = [[Horror Fiction]], [[dark fantasy]], [[weird fiction]], [[surrealism]], [[phantasmagoria]]
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| movement         = [[New Weird]]
| alma_mater       = [[New York University]]
| spouse           = {{marriage|Farah Rose Smith|2019}}
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| website          = {{URL|http://michaelcisco.com/}}
| image            = Michael Cisco.jpg
}}

'''Michael Cisco''' (born October 13, 1970) is an American writer, [[Gilles Deleuze|Deleuzian]] academic, and teacher currently living in [[New York City]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Magazine |first=The London |date=2020-09-08 |title=Interview {{!}} Michael Cisco on Weird Fiction, Cheerful Nihilism and Sex in Literature |url=https://thelondonmagazine.org/interview-michael-cisco-on-weird-fiction-cheerful-nihilism-and-sex-in-literature/ |access-date=2023-04-22 |website=The London Magazine |language=en-GB}}</ref>  He is best known for his [[debut novel|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]].<ref>[http://weirdfictionreview.com/2011/12/wfrs-book-gift-recommendations-for-the-weirdie-in-your-life/ Weird Fiction Review]</ref>  He has described his work as "de-genred" fiction.<ref name= "interview">{{cite news |last=Moreland |first=Sean |url= http://pstdarkness.com/2013/11/22/an-interview-with-michael-cisco/ |title=An Interview with Michael Cisco |work=Postscripts to Darkness |date=2013-11-22 }}</ref>