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Vincent Chu

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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 and 1 other person liked Eric Cheung's review of Nice Places: "Vincent Chu's book about traveling manages to convey the experiential sentiments people often describe feeling when they find themselves in foreign places in the world, but without the customary storyline of what you'd think a traveler's trip with a " Read more of this review »
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Vincent Chu and 2 other people liked Chantal Agapiti's review of Nice Places: "This book did take me on a mental journey, and it wasn’t anything expected. The book is written in a third person point of view, current day in the U.S. We follow Georgie on his quest for meaning, as he quits his corporate job and decides to go travel." Read more of this review »
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Vincent Chu and 6 other people liked Elena L. 's review of Nice Places: "One day, Georgie decides to quit his job to travel the world for a year. This is a philosophical yet lighthearted narrative about the meaning of life. In this travel story, Georgie, like many of us at some life stage, tries to find connection (in seve" Read more of this review »
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