
Alex Lemon
is the author of the poetry collections Hallelujah
Blackout (Milkweed Editions), Mosquito
(Tin House Books 2006), At Last Unfolding Congo (horse less
press) and the memoir Happy (Scribner 2010). A play will be
published by cinematheque press in 2010. His poems have appeared in
numerous magazines, including Esquire, Best American Poetry 2008,
AGNI, BOMB, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Kenyon Review, New England Review,
Open City, Pleiades and Tin House. He was awarded a 2005
Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the
Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He co-edits LUNA:
A Journal of Poetry and Translation with Ray Gonzalez and is
a frequent contributor to The Bloomsbury Review.