Overview
Alexandra Kleeman is the author of the novel Something New Under the Sun, a New York Times Notable Book of 2021, as well as the short story collection Intimations and the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine. Her work deals in issues related to climate catastrophe, embodiment, and late-capitalist realism. Her novel-in-progress, comprising five novellas set on different islands, traces the rise and fall of systems of monetization and exchange. The recipient of the Rome Prize Berlin Prize, and Bard Fiction Prize, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 2022.
Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among others, and other writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, VOGUE, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. She has received fellowships and support from Bread Loaf, MacDowell, Djerassi, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Bergman Estate. A Contributing Writer at the New York Times Magazine, she writes essays and long-form profiles about cultural figures and lives in Ithaca and Colorado.
Research Focus
- Creative Writing
- Literary Theory
- Ecological Writing
- Experimental Poetics
- Speculative Fiction