Alexandra Kleeman (born 1986) is an American writer. Winner of the 2020

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, her work has been reviewed in ''

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'', '' Vanity Fair'', ''

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'', and the ''

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''.

Early life and education

Kleeman was born in Berkeley, California, in 1986 to an American professor of religious studies and a Taiwanese teacher of Japanese literature. She grew up in Japan and Colorado. Kleeman studied creative writing and cognitive science at

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, and received an MFA from

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in 2012.

Career

In 2010 Kleeman's

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"Fairy Tale" was published in ''

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'' while she was in her first semester of her MFA program. In 2015 her

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''You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine'' was published. ''You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine'' was longlisted for both the New York Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her

collection ''Intimations'' was published in 2016. Kleeman was the recipient of the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize for promising writers under the age of 40. In August 2021, Hogarth published Kleeman's novel ''

Something New Under the Sun ''Something New Under the Sun'' is a 2021 novel by American writer Alexandra Kleeman. The novel takes place in the near future in which California has been rendered nearly uninhabitable by climate change In common usage, climate chan ...

.'' Kleeman teaches writing at

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in New York. She previously taught at

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. She has written for ''

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'', ''

Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Phil ...

'', '' Harper's'', ''

'', ''Zoetrope'', ''

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'', and '' n+1'', among others.

Personal life

Kleeman is married to writer

Alex Gilvarry Alex Gilvarry (b. 1981 on Staten Island, NY) is an American writer. He is the author of the novels ''From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant'' (2012) and ''Eastman Was Here'' (2017). In 2009, Gilvarry graduated from CUNY - Hunter College's MFA P ...

and lives in

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Bibliography

*''

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine ''You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine'' is the 2015 debut novel by Alexandra Kleeman. It was Kleeman's first novel, and was published by HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alo ...

'', Harper, 2015, *''Intimations: Stories'', Harper, 2016, *''

'' 2021

References

External links

*
New York Times Review of “Something New Under the Sun”
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