Alex Boyd (born 1969) is a Canadian poet, essayist, editor, and critic.
From 2003 to 2008, he hosted the IV Lounge Reading Series in Toronto, presenting fiction readers alongside poets, and eventually co-editing IV Lounge Nights, an anthology to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series.
[3] In 2008, he established Digital Popcorn, a site for personal film reviews, and has helped launch the Best Canadian Essays series with Tightrope Books, co-editing the first two collections.
His second book of poems The Least Important Man was published by Biblioasis in 2012, and his first novel Army of the Brave and Accidental, a retelling of The Odyssey as modern mythology, was published in 2018 with Nightwood Editions.
Army of the Brave and Accidental was shortlisted for the 2019 ReLit Award for fiction.