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
Majmudar at the Neustadt Festival 2015
Majmudar at the Neustadt Festival 2015
Born1979 (age 44–45)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • poet
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Akron (BS)
Northeast Ohio Medical University (MD)
SpouseAmi
Children3

Life

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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

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Novels

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  • Partitions, Metropolitan Books, 2011.
  • The Abundance: A Novel. Metropolitan Books. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8050-9658-3.
  • Sitayana, Penguin, 2019.

Poetry

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Collections

Translations

  • Godsong : a verse translation of the Bhagavad Gita

Anthologies

  • Resistance, rebellion, life : 50 poems now / edited and introduced by Amit Majmudar

Notes

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  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)

Further reading

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