Alexandra Chasin is associate professor of literary studies at Lang College, The New School. Her works of nonfiction include Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market, and Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs. The latter was partially supported by a residency at MacDowell, and also by a fellowship from the Leon Levy Center for Biography at CUNY. Other books are Kissed By, a collection of short fictions, and Brief, a novella that was first released in app form. Chasin was the founder and artistic director of Writing On It All, a public participatory writing project that ran on Governors Island in New York Harbor from 2013 to 2017. She is the recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, and author of Fragments, Lists & Lacunae, a theater work commissioned by New York Live Arts for performance in February 2020.
Portrait by Ricardo Paredes
