Amit Majmudar

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
Born1979 Edit this on Wikidata
Website
www.amitmajmudar.com

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. 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. 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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