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Rafael Lemus (Mexico City, 1977) is a Mexican writer, editor and professor.

He is the author of the collection of short stories Informe (2008), the pamphlet Contra la vida activa (2009) and the essay Breve historia de nuestro neoliberalismo: poder y cultura en México (2021), as well as co-editor (along with Humberto Beck) of the collective book El futuro es hoy: ideas radicales para México (2018).

He has contributed to numerous national and international publications, including El Universal, La Tempestad, Revista de la Universidad de México, The New Inquiry and The New York Times. His work (mainly, literary and critical criticism) has been included in more than a dozen collective books.

He was co-founder and editorial director of the literary magazine Cuaderno Salmón, editor of Letras Libres and co-founder and editor of Horizontal.

In 2022 he received the José Revueltas Fine Arts Prize for Literary Essay for his manuscript Atlas de (otro) México. He is a member of Mexico's Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, and Associate Professor of Spanish at California State University, Fresno.

Works
- Informe. Mexico: Tusquets, 2008. (Short-stories)

- Contra la vida activa. Mexico: Tumbona, 2009. (Essay)

- El futuro es hoy: ideas radicales para México. Mexico: Biblioteca Nueva, 2018. (Co-edited with Humberto Beck)

- Breve historia de nuestro neoliberalismo: poder y cultura en México. Mexico: Debate, 2021. (Essay)