Michael Harris Cohen’s stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including Conjunctions, The Dark, F(r)iction, A Punk Rock Future, and Catapult’s Tiny Crimes. His first book, The Eyes, won Mixer’s “Sex, Violence, and Satire” contest judged by Stephen Graham Jones. His horror and dark fiction collection, Effects Vary, will be published by Cemetery Gates Media in October, 2022. He’s received a Fulbright grant and fellowships from The Djerassi Foundation, OMI International Arts Center, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Jentel Artists Residency, Blue Mountain Center, and the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation. He’s a graduate of the MFA program at Brown University where he won the Weston Award for best graduate fiction manuscript. He is an active member of the HWA and lives with his wife and daughters in Sofia. He also teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the American University in Bulgaria.