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Alexander Chee


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Alexander Chee was born in Rhode Island, and raised in South Korea, Guam and Maine. He is a recipient of the 2003 Whiting Writers Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in Fiction and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony , the VCCA, Ledig House, the Hermitage and Civitella Ranieri . His first novel, Edinburgh (Picador, 2002), is a winner of the Michener Copernicus Prize, the AAWW Lit Award and the Lambda Editors Choice Prize, and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a Booksense 76 selection. In 2003, Out Magazine honored him as one of their 100 Most Influential People of the Year. His essays and stories have appeared in Granta.com, Out,The Man I Might Become, Loss Within Loss, Men On Men 2000, His 3 and Boys Like Us. He has taught fiction and nonfiction writing at the New School University, Wesleyan, Amherst College, and in spring 2011 will teach in the Fiction program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in New York City and blogs at Koreanish.
 

 
Novels
   Edinburgh (2001)
   The Queen of the Night (2016)
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Series contributed to
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Books containing stories by Alexander Chee
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Kink (2021)
edited by
Garth Greenwell and R O Kwon
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Eat Joy (2019)
Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers
edited by
Natalie Eve Garrett
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Everyday People (2018)
The Color of Life
edited by
Jennifer Baker

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The Slip (2025)
Lucas Schaefer
"A fascinating novel full of so much life. Lucas Schaefer takes a lapidary eye to these characters and Austin, holding them up to the light and tracing stories only he could tell. I can't think of another writer like this except maybe Marquez, though I think The Slip is bawdier than his work - and thus, a novel he might have loved."
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When the Harvest Comes (2025)
Denne Michele Norris
"A story of becoming yourself that isn't like anything I've ever read. We are still getting the literature we deserve, and Norris takes us further down that road with this brave and powerful novel exploring the freedom we find in the presence of those loves we cannot hide from."
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Loca (2025)
Alejandro Heredia
"Loca asks, how do we find each other and love each other, see each other, save each other, and this novel answers, again and again, like this."

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