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. He is a recipient of the 2003 Whiting Writer's Award, a 2004 NEA Literature fellowship, and a 2005 MacDowell Colony fellowship. His second novel, The Queen of the Night, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin in 2008.
