2025 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, Alexander Chee, Reading

Alexander Chee, 2025 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence will give a reading on Tuesday, March 18 at 7:30pm in Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall. The reading is free and open to the public.

Alexander Chee is the author of three books, including most recently the widely acclaimed essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2018. In addition to his nonfiction work, Chee is the author of two novels, Edinburgh (Welcome Rain, 2001; Picador, 2002) and The Queen of the Night (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. For his writing, Chee has received many distinguished awards, including a 2021 United States Artist Fellowship, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in Prose, a 2003 Whiting Award, as well as artist residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Civitella Ranieri, among others. Chee serves as a contributing editor at The New Republic, an editor at large at The Virginia Quarterly Review, and a critic at large at The Los Angeles Times. He was guest-editor for Best American Essays 2022, and his essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Granta, The Paris Review, The Sewanee Review, N+1, Guernica, and Best American Essays 2016 and 2019. Chee teaches at Dartmouth College, where he is a professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing.