Alvin Lu lives in San Francisco. He is the author of the novels Daydreamers, which is forthcoming from Fiction Collective 2, and The Hell Screens.

He is an MFA recipient from Brown University and winner of the John Williams Prize for Prose. Other writings have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, The Dodge, Denver Quarterly, Firmament, new_sinews, Rain Taxi, Your Impossible Voice, ZYZZYVA, and the Akashic Books anthology San Francisco Noir.

The Bookish Asia interview on The Hell Screens

Contact neoalvinlu at gmail dot com.

Events

March 26, 2025 | Los Angeles

Stories Books & Cafe | 1716 W Sunset Boulevard

6pm-8pm | AWP: Reading with Asterism Publishing

With Orchid Tierney (Calamari), Emilio Carrero (Calamari), [name of author] (Sublunary/Inside the Castle), Michael Holt (Sublunary), Vik Shirley (Sublunary), Alina Stefanescu (Sarabande)

March 27 | Los Angeles

The Escondite | 410 Boyd Street

Doors 5pm | Reading 6pm | new_sinews in Skid Tokyo

With Gabriel Palacios, Allison Hummel, Steve Barbaro, Sam Moss

March 28 | Los Angeles

101-17 Studios | 101 East 17th Street

7:30pm | Fiction Collective 2, Dorothy, Rescue Press, CSU Press, and Case Western Reserve University

With Amina Cain, Caren Beilin, Madeline McDonnell, Daisy Atterbury, Patrick Lawler, Katie Jean Shinkle, Ray Levy, Lindsay Turner, Robin Beth Schaer, Michele Tracy Berger, Sam Ace, Vanessa Saunders

September 17 | San Francisco

City Lights Bookstore | 261 Columbus Avenue

7pm | Daydreamers Bay Area Launch Party