Amit Majmudar
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Amit Majmudar (born 1979)[1] is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio.[2]

Life

Majmudar, 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. One of the twins has a congenital heart defect.[4]

His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review,[5] Image,[6] Poetry, National Poetry Review,[7] Smartish Pace,[8] River Styx,[9] and The New Yorker.[10]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Partitions, Metropolitan Books, 2011.
  • The Abundance: A Novel. Metropolitan Books. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8050-9658-3.
  • Sitayana, Penguin, 2019.

Poetry

Collections

  • 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.[11]
  • 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

  1. ↑ "The O. Henry Prize Stories".
  2. ↑ Randy Ludlow, Dublin physician named first Ohio poet laureate, Columbus Dispatch, 17 Dec. 2015 (accessed 17 Dec. 2015)
  3. ↑ "A Poet Laureate for Ohio". Clevelandpoetics. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Majmudar, Amit (10 August 2020). "Identical Twins With Two Very Different Destinies". The New York Times.
  5. ↑ John Donald Kingsley (2006). The Antioch Review. Antioch Review, Incorporated. Retrieved 20 December 2014. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ "Image ◊ Journal ◊ Back Issues ◊ Issue 50". imagejournal.org. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  7. ↑ The National Poetry Review. Dream Horse Press. 1 January 2009. ISBN 9780982115527. Retrieved 20 December 2014. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ "Poet Index & Photos - Smartish Pace (a poetry review)". Smartish Pace. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  9. ↑ Majmudar, Amit. "Amit Majmudar". River Styx Literary Magazine. River Styx. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  10. ↑ Majmudar, Amit (March 21, 2011). "The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim". The New Yorker.
  11. ↑ Amit Majmudar, Verse Wisconsin (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015)

Further reading

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