Alexander Chee



Alexander Chee is an American poet, fiction writer, journalist, and reviewer.

Life
Born in Rhode Island, Chee spent his childhood in South Korea, Kauai, Truk, Guam and Maine. He attended Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

His short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Best American Erotica 2007, A Fictional History of the US (With Huge Chunks Missing), Men on Men 2000, and His 3. His essay I, Reader was selected for inclusion in the Notable Essays list of the 2011 edition of the Best American Essays. Compilations of his personal essays have appeared in From Boys To Men, Loss Within Loss, Boys Like Us, The M Word, and The Man I Might Become. His poetry appeared in Barrow Street, LIT, Interview, the James White Review, and 'XXX Fruit. He has written journalism and reviews for Time Out New York, Out/Look, OutWeek, The Advocate, Out, Bookforum and the San Francisco Review of Books.

The associate fiction editor of the online literary magazine The Nervous Breakdown, Chee now lives in Massachusetts.

He has taught fiction writing at the New School University and Wesleyan, and has served as a Visiting Writer at Amherst College.

Recognition
Chee has received the Asian American Writers Workshop Literary Award, the Lambda Editor's Choice Prize, the Michener/Copernicus Fellowship Prize, the 2003 Whiting Writers' Award, a residency from the MacDowell Colony and the 2004 NEA Fellowship in Fiction. In 2003, Out named him one of their 100 Most Influential People of the year.

Books

 * Edinburgh: A Novel, First Picador USA edition: November 2002
 * The Queen of the Night, forthcoming from Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt

Anthologized

 * 41, 42, 43 in the anthology The M Word
 * Memorials in the anthology Literature of Tomorrow, (short story)
 * Boys Like Us:Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories, Patrick Merla(ed.) Avon Books. 1996, essay
 * His3: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers, short story
 * From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up, essay
 * "A Document of the Sexual Revolution.", poetry
 * Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum", memoir
 * Interview in Sex Is... (1993), Directed by Marc Huestis, as himself