Aube Rey Lescure

Rey Lescure grew up in northern China, Shanghai and southern France with her French expatriate mother.^[1][2] Her father and Chinese family are from Liaoning province in northeastern China. She moved to the United States when she was 16.^[1][2] She attended Phillips Academy Andover and graduated from Yale University in 2015. She currently lives in Boston.^[2]

Rey Lescure's debut novel River East, River West was shortlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction.^[3][4] It is the only debut novel on the 2024 shortlist.^[3][4] The novel was also shortlisted for the Maya Angelou Book Award, the Carol Shields Prize, and the Stanfords Fiction with a Sense of Place Award. In 2025, it was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary award.^[5]