Lucas Schaefer lives in Austin, Texas. His first novel, The Slip, was published in the US in June 2025 and went on to become a national bestseller and to win the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. It was also shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and was selected as a book of the year by the Washington Post and the New York TimesBook Review. Lucas’s writing has appeared in the Paris Review, One Story, Baffler and other publications.