Andrew Altschul is the author of three novels: The Gringa (2020), Deus Ex Machina (2011), and Lady Lazarus (2008). His short fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Esquire, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, AFAR, 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 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. From 2009-2015 he directed the Center for Literary Arts at San José State University.

Altschul is currently Literature Advisor to the DAG Foundation and Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Colorado State University. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife, Vauhini Vara, and their son.