Tom Lutz (born March 21, 1953)[1][2] is an American writer, literary critic and the founder of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
[2] He was Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Creative Writing at University of California, Riverside and retired in 2024.
[5][6] He has published more than 100 articles in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Chicago Tribune, Die Zeit, ZYZZYVA, Exquisite Corpse, Salon.com, Black Clock and dozens of other magazines, newspapers, book collections, and literary and academic journals.
[18] He lives in Los Angeles, California,[19] and St. Chamassy, France, in the Dordogne, with his wife, Laurie Winer.
[20] Lutz has two new books appearing in 2025, Still Slippy: A Novel (Red Hen Press) and 1925: A Literary Encyclopedia (Rare Bird Lit).