Lucas Schaefer

Lucas Schaefer's debut novel The Slip is the winner of the 2025 Kirkus Prize for fiction, a Top 10 book of the year from the Washington Post, one of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2025, and a national bestseller. His short fiction has appeared in One Story, The Baffler, Southwest Review and elsewhere. He lives with his family in Austin.