Lucas Schaefer is a writer based in Austin. His debut novel, THE SLIP, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.
Lucas’ work has appeared in One Story, The Baffler, Slate and elsewhere. He has received a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, and has been a resident at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods and The Studios of Key West. In March 2019, Lucas was writer-in-residence at the Corsicana Artist & Writer Residency, where he was the recipient of a G.W. Jackson Multicultural Society grant, given to artists invested in exploring race in their work. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in History from Duke University.
Lucas lives with his husband, Greg, and their dog, Zeus.