Bio

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is associate professor of English at State University of New York-Fredonia, where she teaches creative writing and environmental literature.

She is the author of three poetry collections: LUCKY FISH (2011), winner of the gold medal in Poetry from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize for Independent Books; AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO (2007), winner of the Balcones Prize; and MIRACLE FRUIT (2003), winner of the Tupelo Press Prize, ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award, the Global Filipino Award and a finalist for The Glasgow Prize and the Asian American Literary Award. Her first chapbook, FISHBONE (2000), won the Snail’s Pace Press Prize.

Recent honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pushcart Prize. Nezhukumatathil also received SUNY-Fredonia’s Hagan Award and the SUNY-wide Chancellor’s Award for excellence in scholarship and creative activities. Peacocks, paper, jellyfish, and brown paper packages tied up with string: these are a few of her favorite things.

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