Amit Majmudar

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

Amit Majmudar
Born	1979
Website
www.amitmajmudar.com

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.[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, and daughter Aishani. One of the twins has a congenital heart defect.[3]

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

Bibliography

Novels

• Sitayana. 2019.
• 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.[10]
• 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. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
3. Majmudar, Amit (10 August 2020). "Identical Twins With Two Very Different Destinies". The New York Times.
4. John Donald Kingsley (2006). The Antioch Review. Google Books. 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. Google Books. 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.

External links

• Amit Majmudar at the Poetry Foundation
• Amit Majmudar at Penguin India