Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, all from Mariner Books. A contributing editor at The New Republic and an editor at large at VQR, his essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, The Sewanee Review, and Harper's. He was the guest-editor for The Best American Essays 2022, a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction. He teaches as a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.