Alvin Lu lives in San Francisco. He is the author of the novels Daydreamers 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 of 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.

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Contact neoalvinlu at gmail dot com

Upcoming Events

September 17, 2025 | San Francisco

City Lights Bookstore | 261 Columbus Avenue

7pm | Reading from Daydreamers

With Stacey Levine, author of Mice 1961

October 23, 2025 | Alameda, CA

Books Inc. Alameda | 1344 Park Street

6:30pm | Reading from Daydreamers

With Shawna Yang Ryan, author of Green Island

Past Events

August 14, 2025 | Seattle

Elliott Bay Book Company | 1521 10th Avenue

7pm | Reading from Daydreamers

With Stacey Levine, author of Mice 1961

August 3, 2025 | Online Reading

2pm Pacific | 4pm Central | 5pm Eastern

With Alina Stefanescu (My Heresies) and [name of author] ([title])

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)