Alexander Kuo (born 1941 (?) in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American teacher, poet, fiction writer, and essayist of Chinese-American ancestry. He received his B.A. from Knox College in 1961 and M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. He is professor of English at Washington State University, which lists him as an example of their "world class faculty." and is the former chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures (now called Comparative Ethnic Studies).

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  • Alexander Kuo (born 1941 (?) in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American teacher, poet, fiction writer, and essayist of Chinese-American ancestry. He received his B.A. from Knox College in 1961 and M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. He is professor of English at Washington State University, which lists him as an example of their "world class faculty." and is the former chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures (now called Comparative Ethnic Studies). In 2001, WSU named him their first Writer-in-Residence. He has won multiple National Endowment for the Arts grants, and has held numerous teaching fellowships in China, including a 1989 fellowship at Beijing University, Senior Fulbright Scholar at Changchun University in 1991-92, and a Lingnan Fellow in Hong Kong in 1997-98. He received a Rockefeller Foundation grant for a Bellagio residency. Lipstick and Other Stories won the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation in 2002. His writing makes demands on the reader in a way comparable to Franz Kafka or Jorge Luis Borges. He is a mentor to notable Native American writer Sherman Alexie. (en)
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  • Alexander Kuo (born 1941 (?) in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American teacher, poet, fiction writer, and essayist of Chinese-American ancestry. He received his B.A. from Knox College in 1961 and M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. He is professor of English at Washington State University, which lists him as an example of their "world class faculty." and is the former chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures (now called Comparative Ethnic Studies). (en)
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  • Alexander Kuo (en)
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