2016-2017 Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is professor of English in the University of Mississippi\u27s MFA program. Her newest collection of poems is OCEANIC (Copper Canyon Press, 2018), published after her year as the Grisham Writer in Residence. She is also the author of the forthcoming book of illustrated nature essays, WORLD OF WONDER (2019, Milkweed), and three previous poetry collections: LUCKY FISH (2011), AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO (2007), and MIRACLE FRUIT (2003)–all from Tupelo Press. Her most recent chapbook is LACE & PYRITE, a collaboration of nature poems with the poet Ross Gay. She is the poetry editor of Orion magazine and her poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry 2015 & 2018 series, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, and Tin House. Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pushcart Prize. (Photo credit: Ted Ely)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1003/thumbnail.jp