Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil was born in Chicago to a Filipina mother and South Indian father. She earned her BA and MFA from the Ohio State University and was a Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the New York Times bestselling author of two illustrated essay collections: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments and Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees. Her books of poems include Miracle Fruit (2003), winner of the ForeWord Magazine Poetry Book of the Year and the Global Filipino Literary Award; At the Drive-In Volcano (2007), winner of the Balcones Prize; Lucky Fish (2011); Oceanic (2018), and Night Owl (Ecco, 2026). With Ross Gay she co-wrote the chapbook of epistolary nature poems, Lace and Pyrite (2014). Nezhukumatathil's work has appeared in Poetry magazine, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, and American Poetry Review. She spent a decade as poetry editor for Orion Magazine and then Sierra, the storytelling branch of the Sierra Club. Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pushcart Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry. A professor for over 25 years, she is the recipient of the The North American Association of Environmental Educators' (NAAEE) Pepe Marcos-Iga Award for Innovation in Environmental Education and is a US Artists Fellow. She serves as a firefly guide for Mississippi State Parks and lives in Oxford, Mississippi with her husband and sons.
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