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.
Interviews
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)
