Lincoln Michel

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Lincoln Michel
Born1982 (age 4142)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Columbia University
Genre Fiction, short story, science fiction, weird fiction
Website
www.lincolnmichel.com

Lincoln Michel (born 1982) is an American short story writer, novelist, and editor. He is the author of Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press 2015) and The Body Scout (Orbit 2021).

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Career

Lincoln Michel was the co-founder and co-editor of Gigantic . From 2014 to 2017, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Electric Literature . [1] [2] He is known for his "genre-bending" stories. [3] His short stories have been published in Noon , The Paris Review , Granta , Tin House , Fantasy and Science Fiction , and The Believer . He won a 2015 Pushcart Prize.

His debut novel The Body Scout [4] was published in 2021 and received critical acclaim. The New York Times called the novel “timeless and original" and "a wild ride, sad and funny, surreal and intelligent.” [5] Boing Boing described it as "a modern cyberpunk classic." [6] He has taught at the Columbia University School of the Arts and Sarah Lawrence College. [7] [8]

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  5. El-Mohtar, Amal (2021-09-21). "Beasts and Baseball: New Science Fiction and Fantasy". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-10-16.
  6. Dunn, Thom (2021-10-06). "THE BODY SCOUT is a modern cyberpunk classic about baseball and big Pharma". Boing Boing. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
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