The Work Room Interview: Alexander Chee Talks Literary Influences, Upcoming Projects, and Abandoned Spaceships

Alexander Chee is the award-winning author of the essay collection How To Write An Autobiographical Novel and bestselling novel The Queen of the Night. His first novel Edinburgh was named a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year, and won the Iowa Writers' Workshop's Michener Copernicus Prize in Fiction, the Lambda Literary Foundation's Editor's Choice Prize, and the Asian American Writers' Workshop Literary Award. Currently, Garth Greenwell is teaching a Master Class on Edinburgh for The Work Room, which Chee will join for the last session. Next quarter, Chee will teach a Craft Seminar for The Work Room on his recent work as editor of Best American Essays 2022. He is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College, a contributing editor at The New Republic, and an editor at large at the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Leslie ShipmanMarch 24, 2023alexander chee