![Alexander, a mixed race Korean American man of 53, is dressed in a navy cable-knit sweater and dress shirt. The wallpaper behind him is charcoal and black, and his face is lit by the sun coming from the window.](https://usa-p-36588810407f.b-cdn.net/af9432e2-d51b-4c35-b042-c5911772529a/chee-alexander-headshot-scaled.jpg?crop=1270%2C1270%2C968%2C298&width=1000)
Photo by Robert Gill.
Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, all published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Chee is a contributing editor at The New Republic and an editor at large at VQR. His essays and stories have appeared in a range of publications, including The New York Times Magazine, the Sewanee Review, The Yale Review, Guernica, and the 2016 and 2019 Best American Essays anthologies. He is winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship for prose, a 2010 Mass Cultural Council Fellowship, the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, the Paul Engle Prize, and the Lambda Literary Trustee Award. He has also received residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, VCCA, Civitella Ranieri, and Amtrak. Chee is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont.
Donor -This award was generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This artist page was last updated on: 07.11.2024