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  • Alexandra Kleeman

    Assistant Professor of Writing with concentration in Fiction

    Email
    kleeman@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Alexandra Kleeman

    Profile

    Alexandra Kleeman is a Staten Island-based writer of fiction and nonfiction, and the winner of the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among others. Nonfiction essays and reportage have appeared in Harper's, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. Her work has received scholarships and grants from Bread Loaf, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, and ArtFarm Nebraska. She is the author of the debut novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine (Harper, 2015) and Intimations (Harper, 2016), a short story collection.

    Current Courses

    Creative Thesis & Lit. Project
    NWRG 5920, Spring 2024

    Honors Program: Thesis
    NWRW 4950, Spring 2024

    Writer's Life Colloquium
    NWRG 5800, Spring 2024

    Past Courses

    Creative Thesis & Lit. Project
    NWRG 5920, Fall 2023

    Fiction Workshop
    NWRG 5400, Fall 2023

    Honors R&W:Political Fictions
    NWRW 3862, Fall 2023

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