Lucas SchaeferLucas 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 Crcle John Leonard Prize and was selected as a book of the year by the Washington Post and the New York Times Book Review. Lucas’s writing has appeared in the Paris Review, One Story, Baffler and other publications. Read More Read Less