Alexander Chee

Bio

Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel. A contributing editor at The New Republic, and an editor at large at VQR, his essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, The Sewanee Review, and the 2016 and 2019 Best American Essays. He is the guest editor of [Best American Essays 2022](: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-best-american-essays-2022-robert-atwanalexander-chee). He is a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction, and the recipient of a Whiting Award, a NEA Fellowship, an MCCA Fellowship, the Randy Shilts Prize in gay nonfiction, the Paul Engle Prize, and the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize. He teaches as an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.