Aube Rey Lescure is a French Chinese American writer who grew up between Shanghai, northern China, and the south of France. After receiving her BA from Yale University, she worked in foreign policy and has coauthored and translated two books on Chinese politics and economics. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in or are forthcoming in Guernica, Best American Essays 2022, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, The Millions, The Florida Review (online), WBUR, and others. She is the deputy editor at Off Assignment. Her debut novel, River East, River West, was published in 2024 by William Morrow.