Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the New York Times bestselling author of the illustrated essay collection, BITE BY BITE: NOURISHMENTS AND JAMBOREES (Ecco, 2024), the illustrated nature essay collection, WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES, WHALE SHARKS, AND OTHER ASTONISHMENTS (Milkweed Editions, 2020), and four award-winning collections of poetry: OCEANIC (2018), LUCKY FISH (2011), AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO (2007), and MIRACLE FRUIT (2003). Her writing appears in two editions of The Best American Poetry, Poetry Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, and The Paris Review. Awards for her writing include a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment of the Arts, Mississippi Arts Council, and the Pushcart Prize. She is Professor of English in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi and poetry editor for the Sierra Club's SIERRA Magazine.