Career
Chee's short fiction appeared in the anthologies ''Best American Erotica 2007, A Fictional History of the US (With Huge Chunks Missing), Men on Men 2000'', ''His 3,'' and his personal essays in'' Out, From Boys To Men, Loss Within Loss, Boys Like Us, The M Word,'' and ''The Man I Might Become.'' His essay "I, Reader" was selected for inclusion in the Notable Essays list of the 2011 edition of the ''Best American Essays'', and his essay "Girl," was included in ''The Best American Essays, Best American Essays 2016.'' His short stories and essays have also appeared in magazines and journals such as ''The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate (magazine), Slate, Guernica (magazine), Guernica, NPR''. Chee's poetry has appeared in ''Barrow Street (magazine), Barrow Street'', ''LIT'', ''Interview (magazine), Interview'', the ''James White Review'', and ''XXX Fruit''. He has written journalism and reviews for ''The New York Times'', ''Time Out (company), Time Out New York'', ''Outlook (Indian magazine), Out/Look'', ''OutWeek'', ''The Advocate (LGBT magazine), The Advocate'', ''Out (magazine), Out'', ''Bookforum'' and the ''San Francisco Review of Books''. Chee's critically acclaimed debut novel ''Edinburgh (novel), Edinburgh'' was awarded the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Asian American Writers Workshop Literary Award, the Lambda Literary Award, Lambda Editor's Choice Prize, and the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship, Michener/Copernicus Fellowship Prize. In 2003, ''Out (magazine), Out'' named Chee one of their 100 Most Influential People of the year. He was also the recipient of the 2003 Whiting Awards, Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA fellowship, NEA Fellowship, and a 2010 Massachusetts Cultural Council of the Arts Fellowship, as well as residency fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, and Ledig House, Leidig House. He was a judge for the PEN/Open Book award in 2012 and currently serves on the board of directors of the Authors' Guild of America. Chee was the associate fiction editor of literary magazine ''The Nervous Breakdown (magazine), The Nervous Breakdown'', and is currently a contributing editor at ''The New Republic'', an editor-at-large at ''Virginia Quarterly Review, VQR ''and ''The Lit Hub,'' and a critic-at-large for ''Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Times''. He has taught fiction writing at the New School University, Wesleyan University, Wesleyan, Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Columbia University, the University of Texas at Austin and Princeton University, and has served as a Visiting Writer at Amherst College. In the winter semester 2012/2013 he was Picador Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig. Chee is currently associate professor of creative nonfiction and fiction writing at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.Works
Books
* 2001: ''Edinburgh (novel), Edinburgh'', Picador USA, * 2016: * 2018: ''How to Write an Autobiographical Novel'' (April 17, 2018), Mariner Books,Anthologies
* * * * *Essays and stories
* * * * *Film appearances
*Interview in ''Sex Is...'' (1993), Directed by Marc Huestis, as himselfPodcast appearances
*''LGBTQ&A'', "Alexander Chee: On Becoming An American Writer," April 23, 2018References
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