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
August 14, 2025 | Seattle
Elliott Bay Book Company | 1521 10th Avenue
September 17, 2025 | San Francisco
City Lights Bookstore | 261 Columbus Avenue
7pm | Daydreamers Launch