Aimee Nezhukumatathil has been widely celebrated for her lush imagination and all-embracing style. Preoccupied with earth science since childhood, Nezhukumatathil crafts her research-based poetry using curious phenomena of the natural world; realizing a vision of strangeness and beauty. Her full-length debut, Miracle Fruit: Poems, won the Tupelo press prize in 2003, followed by her Balcones prize-winning At the Drive-In Volcano. Her third collection, Lucky Fish, was the winner of a gold medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the prestigious Eric Hoffer Grand Prize for Independent Books. Her many other honors include fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Today, Nezhukumatathil serves as the poetry editor of Orion magazine. She teaches creative writing and environmental literature as a professor of English in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, where she lives with her husband and sons.

Other poems by Aimee Nezhukumatathil in Verse Daily:
February 13, 2011:   "Suppose You Were a Moray Eel" "when ancient Romans kept glass aquariums filled to bubbling with your..."
August 9, 2007:   "First Anniversary, With Monkeys" " There is no crumbly frozen cake to thaw...."
October 9, 2005:   "Aanabhrandhanmar Means 'Mad About Elephants'" " Forget trying to pronounce it. What matters..."
July 7, 2002:  "Small Murders" "When Cleopatra received Antony on her cedarwood ship..."

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"Nezhukumatathil’s poems contain elegant twists of a very sharp knife. She writes about the natural world and how we live in it, filling each poem, each page with a true sense of wonder."
—Roxane Gay