The Novel

ALEXANDER CHEE's first novel, Edinburgh, won the Michener/Copernicus Prize, the Asian American Writers Workshop Literary Award, the Lambda Editor's Choice prize, and was named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly. His stories and personal essays have been anthologized in Best American Erotica 2006, A Fictional History of the US (With Huge Chunks Missing), Boys Like Us, The Man I Might Become, and From Boys to Men. He is a recipient of the 2003 Whiting Writer's Award, a 2004 NEA Literature fellowship, and a 2005 MacDowell Colony fellowship. He teaches fiction as the Visiting Writer at Amherst College. His second novel, The Queen of the Night, is forthcoming in 2008.