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Name
  
Amit Majmudar


Role
  
Poet


Books
  
Partitions, 0° - 0°: Poems, The Abundance: A Novel, Entrance

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Amit Majmudar is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named Poet Laureate of Ohio.

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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. 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, Image, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, National Poetry Review, The New England Review, Smartish Pace, and The New Yorker.

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

    • Short stories

  • "Secret Lives of the Detainees", The Kenyon Review, 2016; selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 (Anchor Books), edited by Laura Furman; noted as favorite in book by juror Elizabeth McCracken. ISBN 978-0-525-43250-0

    • Poems

  • "By Accident", Counter Balance
  • "The Miscarriage", Poetry, June 2008
  • "Instructions to an Artisan", Poetry, June 2008
  • "Reading", The Formalist
  • Heather McHugh, David Lehman, eds. (2007). "By Accident". The Best American Poetry 2007. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9973-2. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

    • References

    Amit Majmudar Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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