Lucas’s work has appeared in One Story, The Baffler, Slate and other publications. He holds an MFA from the New Writers Project at UT-Austin. Lucas lives with his family in Austin.

His debut novel, The Slip, is the winner of the 2025 Kirkus Prize for fiction, a Washington Post Top 10 Book of 2025, one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2025, a NYTBR Editors’ Choice, and a USA Today national bestseller.