Alexander Chee

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Alexander Chee, gay American fiction writer, poet, journalist and reviewer.

Born in Rhode Island, he spent his childhood in South Korea, Kuai, Truk, Guam and Maine. Attended Wesleyan University and The Iowa Writers Workshop. His poetry has appeared in Barrow Street, LIT, Interview, the James White Review, and 'XXX Fruit. His journalism and reviews in TimeOut/NY, Out/Look, Outweek, the Advocate, Out, Bookforum and the San Francisco Review of Books. He received a Story Magazine Short Short Fiction Award, a Holt, Rinehart and Winston short fiction prize, the Paul Horgan Prize in short fiction, 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. He now lives in Massachusetts.

[edit] Works

41, 42, 43 in the anthology The M Word
Memorials in the anthology Literature of Tomorrow, (short story)
Boys Like Us:Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories, Patrick Merla(ed.) Avon Books. 1996, essay
His3: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers, short story
From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up, essay
"A Document of the Sexual Revolution.", poetry
Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum", memoir
Interview in Sex Is... (1993), Directed by Marc Huestis, as himself
Edinburgh: A Novel, First Picador USA edition: November 2002