Amit Majmudar

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

Life

Majmudar 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.

His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review,[3] Image,[4] Poetry, Poetry Northwest, National Poetry Review,[5] The New England Review, Smartish Pace,[6] and The New Yorker.[7]

Amit has voiced concerns on the rise of Donald Trump as the Republican frontrunner, most notably during the Democratic Presidential Town Hall held in Columbus, Ohio on March 13th, 2016.

Works

Books

Poems

Anthologies

References

  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, Dec. 17, 2015 (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015)
  3. John Donald Kingsley (2006). The Antioch Review. Google Books (Antioch Review, Incorporated). Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  4. "Image ◊ Journal ◊ Back Issues ◊ Issue 50". imagejournal.org. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  5. The National Poetry Review. Google Books (Dream Horse Press). 1 January 2009. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  6. "Poet Index & Photos - Smartish Pace (a poetry review)". Smartish Pace. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  7. Majmudar, Amit (March 21, 2011). "The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim". The New Yorker.
  8. Amit Majmudar, Verse Wisconsin (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015)

Further reading

External links

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