Alex Lemon is a poet and the author of two memoirs: Happy, selected by Kirkus as a best memoir, and Feverland. His collections of poems include Mosquito, Hallelujah Blackout, Fancy Beasts, The Wish Book, and Another Last Day. Lemon's writing has appeared in Esquire, River Teeth, Best American Poetry, AGNI, Bomb, Pleiades, and many other magazines and journals. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, as well as the Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. An editor at large for Saturnalia Books, the poetry editor of descant, and a member of the advisory board for TCU Press, he lives in Fort Worth with his family and is the director of the Master of Liberal Arts Program at Texas Christian University.