Lincoln Michel was born in Virginia and lives in Brooklyn. He is a founding editor of Gigantic. Fiction in NOON, BOMB, Oxford American, Tin House, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. Essays in Tin House, The Believer, Bookforum, The Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. Co-editor of Gigantic Worlds, a forthcoming anthology of science flash fiction. Debut story collection, UPRIGHT BEASTS, forthcoming from Coffee House Press.