ABOUT

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Lincoln Michel is the author of the story collection Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press) and the novel The Body Scout (Orbit), which was named one of the 10 Best Science Fiction Books of 2021 by The New York Times and one of the 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time by Esquire, and the recently released Metallic Realms. His short fiction appears in The Paris Review, Granta, Lightspeed, McSweeney’s, NOON, Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere. His essays and criticism have appeared in The New York TimesThe Believer, The Guardian, and elsewhere. He is the former editor-in-chief of electricliterature.com, a founding editor of Gigantic, and co-editor of the anthologies Gigantic Worlds, Tiny Crimes, and Tiny Nightmares. He teaches fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. He was born in Virginia and lives in Brooklyn. He runs the craft and publishing newsletter Counter Craft