Born: 1974, United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil was born in Chicago, Illinois, and received her MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction from The Ohio State University. She is the author of two poetry collections: Miracle Fruit, winner of the Tupelo Press Prize, ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award, and the Global Filipino Award, and At the Drive-In Volcano, winner of the Balcones Prize, given to the best collection of poetry published in 2007.
Her writing has been published in several anthologies, and has been awarded the Pushcart Prize, the Boatwright Prize from Shenandoah, the Richard Hugo Award from Poetry Northwest and the Emerging Writer’s Award in poetry from The Atlantic Monthly. She is associate professor of English at the State University of New York-Fredonia where she won the Hagan Young Scholar Award and the SUNY Chancellor’s Medal of Excellence for Scholarship and Creative Activities. She lives with her husband and son in Western New York.(www.aimeenez.net/)