Aimee Nezhukumatathil

About Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee, after she taught in western New York for fifteen years, was awarded the Grisham Writer-in-Residence in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program for 2016-17. She is known for her joy-filled and dynamic teaching. Equally at ease in a high school or university classroom, she often serves as a poetry “ambassador”, bringing all the joys and delights of writing poetry and reading to classrooms all around the country. She never sets out to write a book, even after having multiple published. She still finds such a process so daunting. Rather, she tries to focus on the poems individually, getting those done one week after the next. Aimee’s writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, ESPN, The New York Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, Georgia R