Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar
Majmudar at the Neustadt Festival 2015
Born	1979 (age 45–46)
Occupation	Novelist poet
Nationality	American
Education	University of Akron (BS) Northeast Ohio Medical University (MD)
Spouse	Ami
Children	3

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

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.

External links

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