Aimee Nezhukumatathil, 2016-2017 Grisham Writer in Residence.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of Miracle Fruit (2003), winner of the ForeWord Poetry Book of the Year Award; At the Drive-In Volcano (2007), winner of the Balcones Prize; and Lucky Fish (2011), winner of the gold medal in poetry from the Independent Publishers Book Awards, all from Tupelo Press. With Ross Gay, she co-authored the epistolary chapbook, Lace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens (Organic Weapon Arts, 2014). Poems and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, American Poetry Review, New England Review, and the Best American Poetry anthology.
Her honors include the Pushcart Prize and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has taught as the Distinguished Visiting Writer-in-Residence at UNC-Wilmington’s MFA program and has twice served as a faculty member for Kundiman, the Asian American writers’ retreat. She is professor of English and a recipient of a Chancellor’s Medal at The State University of New York at Fredonia where she teaches creative writing and environmental literature.