Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born Dec 23, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Asian American poet, best known for her jovial and accessible reading style and lush descriptions of exotic foods and landscapes. Nezhukumatathil draws upon her Filipino and Malayali background to give a unique perspective on love and loss, and the land. She is author of two poetry collections, most recently, At the Drive-In Volcano, which won the 2007 Balcones Poetry Prize.

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  • Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born Dec 23, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Asian American poet, best known for her jovial and accessible reading style and lush descriptions of exotic foods and landscapes. Nezhukumatathil draws upon her Filipino and Malayali background to give a unique perspective on love and loss, and the land. She is author of two poetry collections, most recently, At the Drive-In Volcano, which won the 2007 Balcones Poetry Prize. Her first collection, Miracle Fruit, was the winner of the 2003 Tupelo Press Prize, and was named the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year in Poetry, won the Global Filipino Award, and was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award and the Glasgow Prize. Her poem Love in the Orangery won a 2009 Pushcart Prize. Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, FIELD, Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, and Tin House. Nezhukumatathil received her M.F.A. from Ohio State University, and is an associate professor of English at the State University of New York - Fredonia. She has also taught at the Kundiman retreat for Asian-American writers. In 2009, she was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry.
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  • Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born Dec 23, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Asian American poet, best known for her jovial and accessible reading style and lush descriptions of exotic foods and landscapes. Nezhukumatathil draws upon her Filipino and Malayali background to give a unique perspective on love and loss, and the land. She is author of two poetry collections, most recently, At the Drive-In Volcano, which won the 2007 Balcones Poetry Prize.
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