Alexandra Kleeman

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Alexandra Kleeman
Born1986 (age 3637)
Berkeley, California, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, writer
NationalityAmerican
Education Brown University (BA)
Columbia University (MFA)
Genre Fiction, short story
Notable worksYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (2015)
Notable awardsThe Bard Fiction Prize (2016)

Alexandra Kleeman (born 1986) is an American writer. Winner of the 2020 Rome Prize, [1] her work has been reviewed in The New York Times , The Guardian , Vanity Fair , Vogue , and the Los Angeles Review of Books .

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Early life and education

Kleeman was born in Berkeley, California, in 1986 to an American professor of religious studies and a Taiwanese teacher of Japanese literature. [2] [3] She grew up in Japan and Colorado. [4] Kleeman studied creative writing and cognitive science at Brown University, and received an MFA from Columbia University in 2012.

Career

In 2010 Kleeman's short story "Fairy Tale" was published in The Paris Review while she was in her first semester of her MFA program. [5] In 2015 her first novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine was published. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine was longlisted for both the New York Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. [11] Her short story collection Intimations was published in 2016. [12] Kleeman was the recipient of the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize for promising writers under the age of 40. [13] In August 2021, Hogarth published Kleeman's novel Something New Under the Sun. [14]

Kleeman teaches writing at The New School in New York. She previously taught at Columbia University School of the Arts. She has written for The New Yorker , Paris Review , Harper's , Vogue , Zoetrope, New York Times Magazine , and n+1 , among others.

Personal life

Kleeman is married to writer Alex Gilvarry and lives in Staten Island. [15] [16]

Bibliography

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