VISITING WRITER ALEXANDER CHEE

Alexander Chee will be in residence at Temple from November 16 to 19.

He will give a reading on campus on Thursday, November 18.

Alexander Chee is a recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, an NEA Fellowship in Fiction, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Ledig House, the Hermitage, and the VCCA. His first novel, Edinburgh, won the Michener Copernicus Prize, the AAWW Literary Award, and the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize, and was a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year. His essays and stories have appeared in Granta.com, Out, The Morning News, The Man I Might Become, Loss Within Loss, Boys Like Us and Mentors, Muses and Monsters. His second novel, The Queen of the Night, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in fall of 2011.