Alexander Aciman (born 1990)^[1] is an American writer and journalist. His work has appeared in Tablet Magazine,^[2] The New York Times, Vox, The New Republic, The New Yorker online, Time magazine,^[3] and The Paris Review online. He is a graduate of The University of Chicago, and when he was a freshman co-authored Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less, published by Penguin Classics.

Aciman is the son of writer André Aciman^[4] and Susan Wiviott, a non-profit executive.^{[5][6][7][8][9]} He has two brothers, Philip and Michael, who are twins.^[10] Aciman is a graduate of the University of Chicago.

As of 2018, Aciman lives in New York City. He is fluent in French.^[11]