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Alexander Chee: Friday Seminar
The Writers Series is presented as part of the MFA Program in Writing
Friday, February 12, 2010, 3:30–5 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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195 De Haro (at 15th Street)
Info: Email Teresa Walsh twalsh@cca.edu or 415.551.9237
Free and open to the public
Alexander Chee was born in Rhode Island and raised in South Korea, Guam, and Maine. He is a recipient of the 2003 Whiting Writers’ Award, a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship in Fiction, as well as fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA).
His first novel, Edinburgh (2002), is a winner of the Michener Copernicus Prize, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) Literary Award, and the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize. It also was selected as Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Book of the Year and American Booksellers Association’s (ABA) Book Sense 76, a monthly list of 76 books selected by 1,000 Book Sense independent booksellers across the country.
In 2003 Out magazine honored him as one of the “100 Most Influential People of the Year.” His essays and stories have appeared in the following: Granta.com, Out, The Man I Might Become, Loss Within Loss, Men on Men (2000), His 3, and Boys Like Us.
Chee is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has taught fiction writing at the New School University and Wesleyan. He is currently the visiting writer at Amherst College and lives in Western Massachusetts.
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