Amit Majmudar

American novelist and poet
  • Novelist
  • poet
NationalityAmericanEducationUniversity of Akron (BS)
Northeast Ohio Medical University (MD)SpouseAmiChildren3

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

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2018)

Novels

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

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. Story Line Press. 2011.[10]
  • Dothead, Knopf, 2016

Translations

  • Godsong : a verse translation of the Bhagavad Gita

Anthologies

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

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)

Further reading

  • "Book Review: 'Partitions'". NPR.
  • "Review: Poetry by Lucia Perillo and Amit Majmudar". The New York Times.
  • "Amit Majmudar's 'The Abundance' trades fake family happiness for something real". The Plain Dealer.
  • "Four lives displaced by the dividing of India; Books and Authors". The Seattle Times. (subscription required)
  • "A New Wave". The Virginian-Pilot. (subscription required)
  • "3 books about restless Indians". The Washington Post. (subscription required)
  • "Amit Majmudar puts the 1947 'Partitions' on a human scale: New in Paperback". The Plain Dealer.
  • "Indian American Novelist Amit Majmudar Named Ohio’s First Poet Laureate". India West.
  • "Ohio’s first official poet says writing isn’t work". The Columbus Dispatch.
  • "To Take Out Trump, Hillary Clinton Must First Dispense With Her Inner Politician". Time.
  • Amit Majmudar at the Poetry Foundation
  • Amit Majmudar at Penguin India
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