Alvin Lu lives in San Francisco. He is the author of the novels Daydreamers (from FC2) and The Hell Screens.
He is an MFA recipient from Brown University, winner of the John Williams Prize for Prose, and judge for the 2026 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. Recently he was guest Prose Editor at the literary magazine Your Impossible Voice. Other writings have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Denver Quarterly, The Dodge, Evergreen Review, Firmament, minor literature[s], new_sinews, Rain Taxi, ZYZZYVA, and the Akashic Books anthology San Francisco Noir.
The Bookish Asia interview on The Hell Screens
Contact neoalvinlu at gmail dot com.
Upcoming Events
August 3, 2025 | Online Reading
2pm Pacific | 4pm Central | 5pm Eastern | Register here for the link
With Alina Stefanescu (My Heresies) and [name of author]
August 14, 2025 | Seattle
Elliott Bay Book Company | 1521 10th Avenue
7pm | Reading from Daydreamers
In conversation with Stacey Levine, author of Mice 1961
September 17, 2025 | San Francisco
City Lights Bookstore | 261 Columbus Avenue
7pm | Daydreamers Bay Area launch
In conversation with Stacey Levine, author of Mice 1961
Past Events
March 28, 2025 | 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
March 27, 2025 | 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 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)
