Amit Majmudar

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Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar at Neustadt Festival 2015 (cropped).jpg
Majmudar at the Neustadt Festival 2015
Born1979 (age 4546)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • poet
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Akron (BS)
Northeast Ohio Medical University (MD)
SpouseAmi
Children3

Amit Majmudar (born 1979) [1] is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio. [2]

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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.

His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, [4] Image, [5] Poetry , National Poetry Review, [6] Smartish Pace , [7] River Styx , [8] and The New Yorker . [9]

Bibliography

Novels

Poetry

Collections

Translations

Anthologies

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. John Donald Kingsley (2006). The Antioch Review. Antioch Review, Incorporated. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  5. "Image ◊ Journal ◊ Back Issues ◊ Issue 50". imagejournal.org. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  6. The National Poetry Review. Dream Horse Press. 1 January 2009. ISBN   9780982115527 . Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  7. "Poet Index & Photos - Smartish Pace (a poetry review)". Smartish Pace. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  8. Majmudar, Amit. "Amit Majmudar". River Styx Literary Magazine. River Styx. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  9. Majmudar, Amit (March 21, 2011). "The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim". The New Yorker.
  10. Amit Majmudar, Verse Wisconsin (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015)

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