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Vincent Chu

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in Oakland, The United States

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Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Contemporary

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Vincent Chu is a Bay Area writer and author of the novel NICE PLACES (Forest Avenue Press, 2026) and story collection LIKE A CHAMPION (7.13 Books, 2018). His fiction has appeared in Muumuu House, STILL Magazine, Pithead Chapel, PANK Magazine, and elsewhere. He is a Headlands Center for the Arts Affiliate Artist, Hambidge Center Fellow, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from UCLA. Vincent lives in Oakland, California.

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Vincent Chu liked Somsubhra Banerjee's review of Nice Places: "Georgie quits his corporate job to travel the world. A meditation guru robs him before the flight. He wakes up in a guesthouse in his own city, starts posting staged photos of fake travels, and the internet believes him. That's the ingenious setup of" Read more of this review »
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Vincent Chu liked KRISTEN CONNELL's review of Nice Places: "Nice Places is a clever, sharply observed novel that turns the familiar “find yourself by traveling the world” story completely on its head. Vincent Chu uses Georgie’s accidental deception to explore much bigger questions about authenticity, loneline" Read more of this review »
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Vincent Chu liked Laura's review of Nice Places: "Like others, the dialogue really bothered me. None of the characters talked like normal people. Here's an example of how the dialogue sounded to me: Georgie : "I'll have a sandwich". Waiter he has never met before: "Ah, a sandwich. Invented by Lord Sa" Read more of this review »
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Vincent Chu and 1 other person liked Mikala's review of Nice Places: "Georgie has done the thing a lot of us fantasize about. He leaves a decade-long job at a tech company with enough savings for a year abroad, and then gets robbed on the way to the airport and loses everything but his phone and his journal. Too embarr" Read more of this review »
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