Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil (
Biography
Nezhukumatathil received her BA and MFA from the
Work
She is author of four poetry collections. Her first collection, Miracle Fruit, won the 2003 Tupelo Press Prize and the Global Filipino Literary Award in Poetry, was named the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year in Poetry, and was a finalist for the
Of her process, Nezhukumatathil has stated: "I never set out to write a book—even after 4 books, I still find that prospect daunting. Instead, I focus on the individual poems, getting those done week after week. And sometimes some quiet times in between too."[10]
Among Nezhukumatathil's awards are a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, a Mississippi Arts Commission Fellowship grant, inclusion in the Best American Poetry series, a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry,[11] and a Pushcart Prize for the poem "Love in the Orangery". Her poems and essays have appeared in New Voices: Contemporary Poetry from the United States,[12] The American Poetry Review, FIELD, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, New England Review, Converse: Contemporary English Poetry by Indians (edited by Sudeep Sen, and published by Pippa Rann Books, London), and Tin House.[3] Nezhukumatathil serves as poetry editor for Orion magazine.
Books
- Fishbone, Snail's Pace Press, 2000 (chapbook)
- One Bite, Ohio State University, 2000 (MFA thesis)
- Miracle Fruit: poems, ISBN 9780971031081
- At the Drive-in Volcano: Poems, ISBN 9781932195453
- Lucky Fish, ISBN 9781932195583
- Lace & Pyrite, (with Ross Gay) Ow Arts Press, 2014 ISBN 9780982710678
- Oceanic, ISBN 9781556595264
- World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, ISBN 1571313656
- Bite by Bite: Nourishments & Jamborees, ISBN 9780063282261
- Anthologies
- Melissa Tuckey, ed. (2018). Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820353159.
- Barbara Hamby; David Kirby, eds. (2010). "What I learned from the Incredible Hulk". Seriously Funny: Poems About Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else. University of Georgia Press. p. 19. ISBN 9780820330877.
- Rachel Zucker; Arielle Greenberg, eds. (2010). "Overwinter". Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days. University of Iowa Press. p. 5. ISBN 9781587298714.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
- John McNally, ed. (2007). "A History of Hair". When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School. Simon and Schuster. pp. 96–108. ISBN 9781416539377.
References
- ^ Nezhukumatathil, Aimee (2016-09-01). Aimee Nezhukumatathil: "Letter to the Northern Lights". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ^ "Aimee Nezhukumatathil". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
- ^ a b "Tupelo Press > Author Page > Nezhukumatathil". Archived from the original on April 12, 2009. Retrieved Aug 29, 2019.
- ^ "Aimee Nezhukumatathil | Extended Bio". aimeenez.net. Retrieved 2019-01-22.
- ^ "Our Wholeness, Our Togetherness: A Conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Ross Gay". Asian American Writers' Workshop. 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ^ "on Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil – The Georgia Review". thegeorgiareview.com. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ^ WORLD OF WONDERS | Kirkus Reviews.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ^ World of Wonders. 2020-01-15.
- ^ Nezhukumatathil, Aimee (2019-05-15). "INTERVIEW WITH Aimee Nezhukumatathil". FOUR WAY REVIEW. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
- ^ National Endowment for the Arts > 2009 Grant Awards > Literature Fellowships - Poetry Archived 2009-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-0-9544257-9-1.
External links
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- Audio: Aimee Nezhukumatathil reads "Letter to the Northern Lights" for Academy of American Poets
- Audio: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Reading for 'From the Fishouse
- Audio: Slate > Aimee Nezhukumatathil Reading Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia > Jan. 20, 2004
- Review: Third Coast > Review by Review by J. Gabriel Scala of Miracle Fruit
- Review: New Pages Book Reviews
- Review: South Asian Women's Network
- Review: Our Own Voice > October 2004 > Review by Carlene Sobrino Bonnivier of Miracle Fruit
- Review: Luna: A Journal of Poetry and Translation > May 19, 2007 > Review by Rigoberto González of At the Drive-in Volcano