Alex Dimitrov is the author of four books of poetry including, Ecstasy (forthcoming in April from Knopf), Love and Other Poems, Together and by Ourselves, Begging for It, and the chapbook American Boys. His poems have been published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Paris Review, and Poetry.

Dimitrov has taught writing at Princeton University, Columbia University, and New York University, among others, and was also the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets, where he edited the popular series Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine.

He is the founder of the newly revived queer poetry salon Wilde Boys (2009-13, 2024-present), which brings together emerging and established writers in Manhattan. The first years of the salon were hosted in Greenwich Village. Wilde Boys is currently hosted at Kapp Kapp gallery in Tribeca.

Dimitrov is also the co-founder of Astro Poets with Dorothea Lasky, and the co-author of Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac, as well as a forthcoming astrology book from HarperCollins. On X he writes the endless poem “Love” in real time, one tweet a day. Find him on Instagram at @wildeamericanboy.