Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is professor of English in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program. She of four poetry collections: Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press, 2018), LUCKY FISH (2011), At the Drive-In Volcano (2007), and Miracle Fruit (2003), the last three from Tupelo Press. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of nature poems with the poet Ross Gay.

She is the poetry editor of Orion magazine and her poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry 2015 & 2018 series, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, and Tin House. Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pushcart Prize.