Alex Lemon

Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir and Feverland: A Memoir in Shards , and the poetry collections Mosquito , Hallelujah Blackout , Fancy Beasts , and The Wish Book . His writing has appeared in Esquire , The Best American Poetry 2008 , AGNI , Gulf Coast , the Kenyon Review , and Tin House , among others. He has been awarded a Literature Fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and he contributes and reviews frequently for a wide range of media outlets. He lives...See more

Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir and Feverland: A Memoir in Shards , and the poetry collections Mosquito , Hallelujah Blackout , Fancy Beasts , and The Wish Book . His writing has appeared in Esquire , The Best American Poetry 2008 , AGNI , Gulf Coast , the Kenyon Review , and Tin House , among others. He has been awarded a Literature Fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and he contributes and reviews frequently for a wide range of media outlets. He lives with his wife and two children in Fort Worth, and teaches at Texas Christian University. See less