Michael Cisco is the author of The Divinity Student (International Horror Writers Guild Award for best first novel of 1999), The San Veneficio Canon, The Tyrant, a contributor to The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases and Album Zutique, and his work has appeared in Leviathan III and Leviathan IV. His new novel, The Traitor, is published by Prime. Secret Hours, a collection of his Lovecraftian short stories, is published by Mythos Books. His columns and the occasional review can be found at TheModernWord.com. He lives in New York City.