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Alex Lemon (January 30, 1978— ) is an American poet. He was born in 1978. When Alex Lemon ’00 arrived at Macalester College in 1996, he was slated to be star catcher of the college’s baseball team. The next spring, however, a cerebral hemorrhage knocked out his cocksure undergraduate swagger - his nickname was happy, all the girls loved him and he partied hard.

He is listed in the 2005-06 Macalester College catalog as a full time faculty member in the English Department.

Lemon is the author of four books. The poetry collections Mosquito (Tin House Books 2006), Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed Editions 2008), Fancy Beasts (Milkweed Editions 2010) and Happy: A Memoir (Scribner 2010)

Lemon is a frequent contributor to The Bloomsbury Review, and co-editor of LUNA. His awards and honors include a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant, and inclusion in the Best American Poetry 2008 anthology. He currently lives in Fort Worth, Texas and teaches at Texas Christian University.

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