Alexander Chee's Biography

Alexander Chee is the author of the novel Edinburgh, a winner of the Asian American Writers' Workshop Lit Award, the Lambda Literary Awards' Editor's Choice Prize, and the Michener/Copernicus Prize. Edinburgh was selected as a Booksense 76 title and named one of Publishers Weekly's Books of the Year. He's a recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award, a NEA Fellowship in Fiction, fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the VCCA, and Out Magazine named him one of their 100 Most Influential People in 2003. He's the Visiting Writer at Amherst College, and his second novel, The Queen of the Night, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.