Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Bio

Born in 1974 in Chicago to a Filipina mother and Malayali Indian father, Aimee Nezhukumatathil is known for writing poems that sit at the intersection of three cultures: Filipino, Indian, and American. She received her BA in English and MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction from Ohio State University in Columbus. Nezhukumatathil is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Mississippi and lives with her family in Oxford, Mississippi.

Reading Materials

Poems:

• Hummingbird Abecedarian by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

• I Could Be a Whale Shark by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

• Letter to the Northern Lights by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

• Summer Haibun by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

• More than the Birds, Bees, and Trees: A Closer Look at Writing Haibun by Aimee Nezhukumatathil