Aube Rey Lescure

Aube Rey Lescure is a French-Chinese-American writer. She grew up between Provence, northern China, and Shanghai, and graduated from Yale University in 2015. Aube’s debut novel, River East, River West, has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024, the Carol Shields Prize, the Maya Angelou Book Award, and the Stanfords Fiction with a Sense of Place award. It was also longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in Granta, Guernica, LitHub, Electric Literature, The Millions, WBUR, The Florida Review Online, Litro, and more. Her essay “At the Bend of the Road” was selected for Best American Essays 2022. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Off Assignment.