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
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.[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. One of the twins has a congenital heart defect.[4]

His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review,[5] Image,[6] Poetry, Poetry Northwest, National Poetry Review,[7] The New England Review, Smartish Pace,[8] River Styx,[9] and The New Yorker.[10]

Bibliography

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

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.[11]
• Dothead

List of poems

• "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

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