Author name: connor

Connor Coyne is a writer living and working in Flint, Michigan. His novel Urbantasm, Book One: The Dying City is winner of numerous awards.  Hugo- and Nebula-nominee William Shunn has praised Urbantasm as “a novel of wonder and horror.” Connor has also authored two other celebrated novels, Hungry Rats and Shattering Glass, as well as Atlas, a collection of short stories. Connor's essay “Bathtime” was included in the Picador anthology Voices from the Rust Belt. His work has been published by Vox.com, Belt Magazine, Santa Clara Review, and elsewhere.  Connor is Director of Gothic Funk Press.  He is on the planning committee for the Flint Festival of Writers and in 2013 represented Flint's 7th Ward as its artist-in-residence for the National Endowment for the Arts' Our Town grant. He earned his Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the New School. Connor lives in the East Village of Flint, Michigan less than a mile from the house where he grew up.