Andrew Altschul is the author of The Gringa, now available from Melville House Press. His previous novels are Lady Lazarus (2008) and Deus Ex Machina (2011). His short fiction and essays have appeared in Esquire, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Hemispheres, Fence, and other publications, and in anthologies including Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best New American Voices, and O. Henry Prize Stories. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford, he has also received fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences, the Ucross Foundation, the Fundación Valparaíso, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. He was the founding Books Editor of The Rumpus and is now a Contributing Editor at Zyzzyva. From 2009-2015 he directed the Center for Literary Arts at San José State University. In 2016, he was the co-author of Writers On Trump, an open letter opposing the Trump campaign that was signed by 472 writers, including ten Pulitzer Prize winners; the online petition later garnered nearly 25,000 signatures. Altschul is currently the Director of Creative Writing at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife, Vauhini Vara, and their son.

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