Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named Poet Laureate of Ohio.[1]
Life
Majmudar grew up in the Cleveland area. He earned a BS at the University of Akron and an MD at Northeast Ohio Medical University.[2] He is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in nuclear medicine practicing full-time in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his wife Ami and his twin sons, Shiv and Savya.
His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review,[3] Image,[4] Poetry, Poetry Northwest, National Poetry Review,[5] The New England Review, Smartish Pace,[6] and The New Yorker.[7]
Works
Books
- Entrance. Ohm Publishing. 1997. ISBN 978-0-9658704-9-8.
- 0, 0: Poems. Northwestern University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8101-2625-1.
- Heaven and Earth. 2011.[8]
- Partitions. 2011.
- The Abundance: A Novel. Metropolitan Books. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8050-9658-3.
Poems
- "By Accident", Counter Balance
- "The Miscarriage", Poetry, June 2008
- "Instructions to an Artisan", Poetry, June 2008
- "Reading", The Formalist
Anthologies
- Heather McHugh, David Lehman, eds. (2007). "By Accident". The Best American Poetry 2007. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9973-2.
References
- ↑ Randy Ludlow, Dublin physician named first Ohio poet laureate, Columbus Dispatch, 17 Dec. 2015 (accessed 17 Dec. 2015)
- ↑ "A Poet Laureate for Ohio," Clevelandpoetics, Dec. 17, 2015 (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015)
- ↑ John Donald Kingsley (2006). The Antioch Review. Google Books. Antioch Review, Incorporated. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ "Image ◊ Journal ◊ Back Issues ◊ Issue 50". imagejournal.org. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ The National Poetry Review. Google Books. Dream Horse Press. 1 January 2009. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ "Poet Index & Photos - Smartish Pace (a poetry review)". Smartish Pace. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ↑ Majmudar, Amit (March 21, 2011). "The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim". The New Yorker.
- ↑ Amit Majmudar, Verse Wisconsin (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015)
Further reading
- "Book Review: 'Partitions'". NPR.
- "Review: Poetry by Lucia Perillo and Amit Majmudar". The New York Times.
- "Amit Majmudar's 'The Abundance' trades fake family happiness for something real". The Plain Dealer.
- "Four lives displaced by the dividing of India; Books and Authors". The Seattle Times. (subscription required)
- "Literary Fiction". Daily Mail. (subscription required)
- "A New Wave". The Virginian-Pilot. (subscription required)
- "3 books about restless Indians". The Washington Post. (subscription required)
- "Amit Majmudar puts the 1947 'Partitions' on a human scale: New in Paperback". The Plain Dealer.
- "Indian American Novelist Amit Majmudar Named Ohio’s First Poet Laureate". India West.
- "Ohio’s first official poet says writing isn’t work". The Columbus Dispatch.
- "To Take Out Trump, Hillary Clinton Must First Dispense With Her Inner Politician". Time.
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