Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1967-68 (?)
• Where—South Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA
• Education—B.A., Wesleyan University
• Awards—Whiting Award
• Currently—lives in New York City, New York
Alexander Chee is an American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer. Born in Rhode Island, he spent his childhood in South Korea, Kauai, Truk, Guam and Maine. He graduated from Wesleyan University and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh (2001) and The Queen of the Night (2016). He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and an editor at large at VQR. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, Guernica, NPR and Out, among others.
He is winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose, a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak.
He has taught writing at Wesleyan University, Amherst College, the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Texas– Austin. He was Picador Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig.
He lives in New York City, where he curates the Dear Reader series at Ace Hotel New York. (Adapted from the author's website and Wikipedia. Retrieved 2/14/2016.)
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