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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 (Tupelo Press, 2007), which won the 2007
Balcones Poetry Prize. Her first collection, Miracle Fruit
(Tupelo Press,
2003), 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 Literary Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for
the Asian American Literary Award and the Glasgow Prize. She was
awarded a 2009 National Endowment for the
Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry,[1] and 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.[2]
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.[3] She has
also taught at the Kundiman retreat for Asian-American writers.[4] In
2009, she was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts
fellowship in poetry.
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