Alex Dimitrov

Alex Dimitrov (born November 30, 1984) is an American poet living in New York City.

Dimitrov is a first-generation immigrant, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and raised in Detroit, Michigan. His parents fled a Communist Bulgaria shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied with the poet Anne Carson, and received a BA in English and Film Studies in 2007. In 2009 he received an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, where he studied with the poet Marie Howe.

Dimitrov is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize from the American Poetry Review and a Pushcart Prize. His first full-length book of poems is Begging for It, published by Four Way Books in March 2013, and he is also the author of American Boys, an online chapbook published by Floating Wolf Quarterly in June 2012, which included poems, childhood photographs, and digital ephemera such as screencaps of text messages and other images from modern methods of communication and connection.

His second book of poems, Together and by Ourselves, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017.

Dimitrov's poems have been published in Poetry,The Yale Review,The Kenyon Review,American Poetry Review, Slate,Tin House, Boston Review,Poetry Daily, Verse Daily and other publications.

He is the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets, where he edits the popular online series Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine, and has taught creative writing at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, Marymount Manhattan College, and Bennington College.

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