Lincoln Michel is the author of the story collection Upright Beasts (Coffee House Press 2015) and the co-editor of the anthologies Gigantic Worlds (Gigantic Books 2015) and Tiny Crimes (Black Balloon Publishing 2018). His fiction appears in The Paris Review, Strange Horizons, Granta, Pushcart Prize XXXIX, and elsewhere. His cultural criticism appears in journals such as The New York Times, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, and BOMB.