Alexander Chee

Alexander Chee is an American author. He was born in Rhode Island, but spent his childhood in South Korea, Kauai, Truk, Guam and Maine. He attended Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Among the awards and honours he has received include the Asian American Writers Workshop Literary Award, the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize, the Michener/Copernicus Fellowship Prize, the 2003 Whiting Award, a residency from the MacDowell Colony and the 2004 NEA Fellowship in Fiction. Chee has taught at the New School University and Wesleyan, and has served as a Visiting Writer at Amherst College. He lives in Massachusetts.