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. She worked in foreign policy before becoming an itinerant writer.

Aube’s debut novel, River East, River West, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins (US) and Duckworth Books (UK) in January 2024. It was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024. It was also a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award and shortlisted for the Stanfords’ Fiction with a Sense of Place Award 2024.

Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming 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 currently works as the Deputy Editor at Off Assignment. Two essays she edited are anthologized in Best American Travel Writing 2021, and four others were listed in Best American Essays Notables.

Aube is the co-author of Creating a Stable Asia (Carnegie 2016) and the translator of Le Système Économique Chinois Face à ses Défis (éditions Nuvis 2017).

Aube received support as an Ivan Gold Fellow at the Writers’ Room of Boston, a Pauline Scheer Fellow at GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator Program, and a writer-in-residence at the Studios of Key West and Willapa Bay AiR.

An excerpt from her novel was a semifinalist in the Boston Review’s 2020 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest. Her short fiction was selected as a finalist for BOMB Magazine’s 2021 Fiction Contest, judged by Ottessa Moshfegh.

She is represented by Hillary Jacobson at Creative Artists Agency (CAA).