Love and Other Poems

Alex Dimitrov (born in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a poet who grew up in the United States and now lives in New York City. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and has taught creative writing at Princeton, Columbia, Barnard, and other institutions. His poetry explores intimacy, celebrity, loneliness, and contemporary American life through a collage of voices and cultural references. He is the author of Begging for It (Four Way Books, 2013), Together and by Ourselves (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), and Love and Other Poems (Copper Canyon, 2021). He received the Stanley Kunitz Prize from American Poetry Review and a Pushcart Prize. He formerly served as Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets and cofounded the Wilde Boys queer poetry salon.