Alexander Chee

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 from Mariner Books, and was the guest editor for Best American Essays 2022. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2021 United Artists Fellow, he is a recipient of the Whiting Award and a NEA Fellowship in Prose, as well as residencies from MacDowell, Civitella Ranieri and the VCCA. His stories and essays have appeared in recently in T Magazine, Harpers, and the New Republic. He is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.