Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar (born 1979)^[1] is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio.^[2]

Amit Majmudar
Majmudar at the Neustadt Festival 2015
Born	1979 (age 45–46)
Occupation	Novelist poet
Nationality	American
Education	University of Akron (BS) Northeast Ohio Medical University (MD)
Spouse	Ami
Children	3

Life

Majmudar, a son of Gujarati^[3] Indian immigrants, grew up in the Cleveland area. He earned a BS at the University of Akron and an MD at Northeast Ohio Medical University.^[4] 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, and daughter Aishani.

His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review,^[5] Image,^[6] Poetry, National Poetry Review,^[7] Smartish Pace,^[8] River Styx,^[9] and The New Yorker.^[10]

Bibliography

Novels

• Partitions, Metropolitan Books, 2011.
• The Abundance: A Novel. Metropolitan Books. 2013. ISBN 978-0-8050-9658-3.
• Sitayana, Penguin, 2019.

Poetry

Collections

• Entrance. Ohm Publishing. 1997. ISBN 978-0-9658704-9-8.
• 0°, 0°: Poems. Northwestern University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8101-2625-1.
• Heaven and Earth. Story Line Press. 2011.^[11]
• Dothead, Knopf, 2016

Translations

• Godsong : a verse translation of the Bhagavad Gita

Anthologies

• Resistance, rebellion, life : 50 poems now / edited and introduced by Amit Majmudar