Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1985-86
• Raised—Colorado, Japan, and elsewhere
• Education—B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of
California-Berkeley (working towrd)
• Currently—lives in Staten Island, New York
Alexandra Kleeman, whose parents are both professors, grew up in places like Japan and Colorado. She started blogging in high school, joking, "I was pretty big in the Asian-American web log community."
After high school, Kleeman went to Brown University, where she studied cognitive science and creative writing. She received her M.F.A in fiction from Columbia University and is working toward her Ph.D. in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley.
At the age of 24, Kleeman published her first short story in the Paris Review and has continued to write for the Review as well as for Zoetrope, Guernica, Tin House, and n+1. She has received grants and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.
Currently, Kleemena lives on Staten Island with her fiance, the novelist Alex Gilvarry. (Adapted from the publisher and Observer.com.)
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