Alexandra Kleeman (born 1986) is an American writer. Winner of the 2020

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, her work has been reviewed in ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Vanity Fair'', ''

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'', and the ''

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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. She grew up in Japan and Colorado. Kleeman studied creative writing and cognitive science at

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, and received an MFA from

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in 2012.

Career

In 2010 Kleeman's

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"Fairy Tale" was published in ''

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'' while she was in her first semester of her MFA program. In 2015 her

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''You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine'' was published. ''You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine'' was longlisted for both the New York Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and

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. Her

collection ''Intimations'' was published in 2016. Kleeman was the recipient of the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize for promising writers under the age of 40. In August 2021, Hogarth published Kleeman's novel '' Something New Under the Sun.'' Kleeman teaches writing at

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in New York. She previously taught at

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. She has written for ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

'', ''Zoetrope'', ''

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'', and ''

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Personal life

Kleeman is married to writer Alex Gilvarry and lives in

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Bibliography

*''

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'', Harper, 2015, *''Intimations: Stories'', Harper, 2016, *'' Something New Under the Sun'' 2021Briefly reviewed in th
October 4, 2021 issue
of ''

'', p.67.

References

External links

*
New York Times Review of “Something New Under the Sun”
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