Amit Majmudar (born 1979)[1] is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio.[2]
Amit Majmudar | |
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.jpg) Majmudar at the Neustadt Festival 2015 | |
| Born | 1979 (age 44–45) |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Akron (BS) Northeast Ohio Medical University (MD) |
| Spouse | Ami |
| Children | 3 |
Life
editMajmudar, a son of Indian immigrants, grew up in the Cleveland area. He earned a BS at the University of Akron and an MD at Northeast Ohio Medical University.[3] 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, and daughter Aishani.
His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review,[4] Image,[5] Poetry, National Poetry Review,[6] Smartish Pace,[7] River Styx,[8] and The New Yorker.[9]
Bibliography
editNovels
edit- Partitions, Metropolitan Books, 2011.
- The Abundance: A Novel. Metropolitan Books. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8050-9658-3.
- Sitayana, Penguin, 2019.
Poetry
editCollections
- 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. Story Line Press. 2011.[10]
- Dothead, Knopf, 2016
Translations
- Godsong : a verse translation of the Bhagavad Gita
Anthologies
- Resistance, rebellion, life : 50 poems now / edited and introduced by Amit Majmudar
Notes
edit- ^ "The O. Henry Prize Stories".
- ^ Randy Ludlow, Dublin physician named first Ohio poet laureate, Columbus Dispatch, 17 Dec. 2015 (accessed 17 Dec. 2015)
- ^ "A Poet Laureate for Ohio". Clevelandpoetics. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
- ^ John Donald Kingsley (2006). The Antioch Review. Antioch Review, Incorporated. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ "Image ◊ Journal ◊ Back Issues ◊ Issue 50". imagejournal.org. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ The National Poetry Review. Dream Horse Press. 1 January 2009. ISBN 9780982115527. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ "Poet Index & Photos - Smartish Pace (a poetry review)". Smartish Pace. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ Majmudar, Amit. "Amit Majmudar". River Styx Literary Magazine. River Styx. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ Majmudar, Amit (March 21, 2011). "The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim". The New Yorker.
- ^ Amit Majmudar, Verse Wisconsin (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015)
Further reading
edit- "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)
- "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.