Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four poetry collections including Oceanic and her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her forthcoming book of essays is Bite By Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees. Her honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pushcart Prize, a Mississippi Arts Council grant, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry. She is poetry editor for Sierra, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club, and she is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program. Her most recent work is the New York Times-bestselling illustrated collection of nature essays, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments.