Michael Valinsky is a writer based in New York and Paris. He received his B.A. in Poetics and Praxis at New York University. His work has been published on i-D Magazine, OUT Magazine, Lambda Literary, Kirkus Reviews, Artsy, Surface Magazine, eBay and The WILD Magazine. He is the author of .TXT, Zurich: 89plus/LUMA Publications, 2014. Michael is now the Editorial Assistant at Kirkus Reviews.