Michael Harris Cohen

Michael Harris Cohen received his MFA from Brown University. He has published stories in Conjunctions, The Dark Magazine, Pseudopod, Apparition Lit., Litro, and numerous anthologies including Catapult’s Tiny Crimes. He’s a recipient of a Fulbright grant for literary translation and fellowships from the OMI International Arts Center for Writers, Atlantic Center for the Arts, VCCA, The Djerassi Foundation, the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation, and Hawthornden Castle, among other places. He’s won F(r)iction's short story contest, judged by Mercedes M. Yardley, The Modern Grimmoire Literary Prize, and Mixer Publishing’s Sex, Violence, and Satire prize, judged by Stephen Graham Jones, which was published as his first collection, The Eyes. His most recent collection, Effects Vary, came out in 2022 from Cemetery Gates Media. He lives in Sofia, Bulgaria with his wife and daughters, and teaches creative writing and literature at the American University in Bulgaria.