Connor Coyne grew up in Flint, Michigan, and has lived in Chicago and New York City. He received his Bachelors from the University of Chicago and his Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the New School. He has written plays, poetry, essays, short stories, and novels, and his work has been published in the Santa Clara Review.
He also directs performance art and theater and studies the history of Michigan and the midwest. He is fascinated by out-of-the-way places and his heroes are Djuna Barnes, Anne Carson, Ann Radcliffe and Andy Kaufman. He is fascinated by peoples' ability to acknowledge and struggle with paradox, which he sees as being one of the most intriguing elements of Gothic Funk.
He maintains a website at connorcoyne.com.