Amit Majmudar

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

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.[2] 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,[3] Image,[4] Poetry, Poetry Northwest, National Poetry Review,[5] The New England Review, Smartish Pace,[6] and The New Yorker.[7]

Bibliography

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Novels

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

Short fiction

  • "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

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. 2011. [8]
  • Dothead
List of poems
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
The beard 2017 Majmudar, Amit (July 3, 2017). "The beard". The New Yorker. 93 (19): 44–45.
  • "By Accident", Counter Balance
  • "The Miscarriage", Poetry, June 2008
  • "Instructions to an Artisan", Poetry, June 2008
  • "Reading", The Formalist
  • "To The Hyphenated Poets", Poetry, September 2012
  • Heather McHugh, David Lehman, eds. (2007). "By Accident". The Best American Poetry 2007. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9973-2.
Translations
  • Godsong : a verse translation of the Bhagavad Gita
Anthologies
  • Resistance, rebellion, life : 50 poems now / edited and introduced by Amit Majmudar

Notes

  1. ↑ Randy Ludlow, Dublin physician named first Ohio poet laureate, Columbus Dispatch, 17 Dec. 2015 (accessed 17 Dec. 2015)
  2. ↑ "A Poet Laureate for Ohio," Clevelandpoetics, Dec. 17, 2015 (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015)
  3. ↑ John Donald Kingsley (2006). The Antioch Review. Google Books. Antioch Review, Incorporated. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Image ◊ Journal ◊ Back Issues ◊ Issue 50". imagejournal.org. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  5. ↑ The National Poetry Review. Google Books. Dream Horse Press. 1 January 2009. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Poet Index & Photos - Smartish Pace (a poetry review)". Smartish Pace. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  7. ↑ Majmudar, Amit (March 21, 2011). "The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim". The New Yorker.
  8. ↑ Amit Majmudar, Verse Wisconsin (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015)

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