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

Life

Majmudar, a son of 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. He is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in nuclear medicine practicing full-time in

Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and t ...

, where he lives with his wife Ami and his twin sons, Shiv and Savya, and daughter Aishani. One of the twins has a congenital heart defect. His poems have appeared in ''The Antioch Review'', ''Image'', '' Poetry'', ''Poetry Northwest'', ''National Poetry Review'', ''The New England Review'', '' Smartish Pace'', '' River Styx'', and '' The New Yorker''.

Bibliography

Novels

*''Sitayana.'' 2019. * * ''Partitions''. 2011.

Short fiction

*"Secret Lives of the Detainees", ''The Kenyon Review'', 2016; selected for ''The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017'' (Anchor Books), edited by Laura Furman; noted as favorite in book by juror Elizabeth McCracken.

Poetry

Collections * * * Amit Majmudar
''Verse Wisconsin'' (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015) * Dothead List of poems

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20090428134111/http://theformalist.evansville.edu/Majmudar.htm "Reading", ''The Formalist''br>"To The Hyphenated Poets", ''Poetry'', September 2012
* Translations * Godsong : a verse translation of the Bhagavad Gita Anthologies *Resistance, rebellion, life : 50 poems now / edited and introduced by Amit Majmudar

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