Lincoln Michel

Lincoln Michel is a writer, editor, and fiction professor. He is the author of the science fiction noir novel The Body Scout (Orbit) and the genre-bending story collection Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press) and his work appears in The Paris Review, Granta, Strange Horizons, NOON, and elsewhere. His essays and criticism appear in journals like The New York Times, The Guardian, BOMB Magazine, and Lit Hub. 

He is the co-editor the science flash fiction anthology Gigantic Worlds (Gigantic Books), the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated flash noir anthology Tiny Crimes (Catapult), and the forthcoming flash horror anthology Tiny Nightmares (Catapult). These anthologies have included new work from Carmen Maria Machado, Charles Yu, Brian Evenson, Laura van den Berg, Samantha Hunt, and many more. 

He was a founding editor of Gigantic and the former Editor in Chief of Electric Literature. He teaches fiction writing and speculative fiction writing at the MFA programs at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. 

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Praise for Upright Beasts

“Weird, darkly funny stories…Michel ably handles modes from lyrical to ironic.” —New York Times

“If you like Twin Peaks, you’ll love this book”—Huffington Post

“[Upright Beasts] reminded me of the absolute wonder great fiction creates”—Roxane Gay

“These stories are mighty surrealist wonders, mordantly funny and fiercely intelligent, and Lincoln Michel is a writer that will leave you in awe.”—Laura van den Berg

"A tremendous debut.”—Charles Yu

“Stories [that] are strikingly assured in their strange, sublime originality…a megadose of bonafide classics”—Fiction Advocate

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