Andrew Altschul is the author of the novels The Gringa, Deus Ex Machina, and Lady Lazarus. 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 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. He is the Director of Creative Writing at Colorado State University, and lives with his wife, the writer Vauhini Vara, and their son, in Fort Collins.