Aube Rey Lescure

Aube Rey Lescure is a French-Chinese-American writer. Her debut novel, River East, River West, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins (US) and Duckworth Books (UK) in January 2024 and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024. Her essay At the Bend of the Road was selected for Best American Essays 2022. An excerpt from her forthcoming novel was a semifinalist in the Boston Review’s 2020 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest, and her short fiction was a finalist for BOMB Magazine’s 2021 Fiction Contest, judged by Ottessa Moshfegh. Aube grew up between Provence, northern China, and Shanghai, and graduated from Yale University in 2015. She worked in foreign policy before becoming an itinerant writer. Currently, she works as the Deputy Editor at Off Assignment.

Aube Rey Lescure adalah seorang penulis keturunan Prancis-China-Amerika. Novel debutnya, River East, River West, diterbitkan oleh William Morrow/HarperCollins (AS) dan Duckworth Books (UK) pada Januari 2024 dan masuk dalam daftar pendek Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024. Esainya yang berjudul At the Bend of the Road terpilih sebagai Best American Essays 2022. Cuplikan dari novelnya yang akan segera terbit juga menjadi semifinalis dalam Aura Estrada Short Story Contest tahun 2020 di Boston Review. Tak tertinggal, cerita pendek yang ia tulis menjadi finalis dalam Fiction Contest 2021 oleh Majalah BOMB, dengan Ottessa Moshfegh sebagai juri. Aube dibesarkan di Provence, utara China, dan Shanghai, dan lulus dari Yale University pada tahun 2015. Ia bekerja di bidang kebijakan luar negeri sebelum menjadi seorang penulis. Saat ini, ia bekerja sebagai Deputi Editor di Off Assignment.