Aimee Nezhukumatathil Colloquium & Reading

3/30/2018 2:00 PM

Aimee Nezhukumatathil Colloquium & Reading

 

Aimee Nezhukumatathil Colloquium & ReadingFRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2018, Colloquium 2pm-3pm, reading 4PM
Aimee Nezhukumatathil Colloquium
Location

Colloquium: N301 Callaway Center
201 Dowman Drive 30322 //

Reading: Jones Room (3rd floor, Woodruff Library), Reception and Booksigning to Follow

University Event Topic College, Humanities
School Emory College
Department / Organization Arts at Emory, Center for Creativity & Arts
Type of Art Creative Writing, Poetry, & Literary -- Reading, Events & Exhibits
Event Open To All
Cost Free; no ticket required
Contact Name Paula Vitaris
Contact Phone 404-727-4683
Contact Email pvitari@emory.edu

Aimee Nezhukumatathil was born in Chicago, IL to a Filipina mother and a Malayalam father from South India. She attended The Ohio State University where she received her B.A. in English and her M.F.A. in poetry and creative non-fiction and was then awarded the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at UW-Madison. She is 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); 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 most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite (2014), a collaboration of nature poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her newest books are forthcoming in 2018: a collection of poems, Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press) and a book of illustrated nature essays, World of Wonder (Milkweed). She is the poetry editor of Orion magazine and her poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry series, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Poetry, Ploughshares,and Tin House. Other awards include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pushcart Prize, the Angoff Award from The Literary Review, the Boatwright Prize from Shenandoah, The Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest, an Associated Writing Programs Intro Award in creative non-fiction, and fellowships to the MacDowell Arts Colony. In 2016-17, Nezhukumatathil was the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi’s MFA program in creative writing. Aimee was named the SUNY-Fredonia’s Hagan Scholar for a junior faculty member with distinguished scholarship– the first time a member of the SUNY-Fredonia English Department has won this award. Nezhukumatathil also received the Drescher Research Award and SUNY-wide Chancellor’s Award for excellence in scholarship and creative activities. 

Recommended Parking
Fishburne Deck
Lowergate South Deck

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