Amit Majmudar (born 1979) is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio.Randy Ludlow, Dublin physician named first Ohio poet laureate, Columbus Dispatch, 17 Dec. 2015 (accessed 17 Dec. 2015)
Life Majmudar, a son of Gujarati 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, where he lives with his wife Ami and his twin sons, Shiv and Savya, and daughter Aishani.
His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Image, Poetry, National Poetry Review, Smartish Pace, River Styx, and The New Yorker.
Bibliography
Novels
Partitions, Metropolitan Books, 2011.
Sitayana, Penguin, 2019.
Poetry Collections
Amit Majmudar, Verse Wisconsin (retrieved Dec. 17, 2015) Dothead, Knopf, 2016 Translations Godsong : a verse translation of the Bhagavad Gita Anthologies Resistance, rebellion, life : 50 poems now / edited and introduced by Amit Majmudar
Notes
Further reading "Book Review: 'Partitions'". NPR. "Review: Poetry by Lucia Perillo and Amit Majmudar". The New York Times. "Amit Majmudar's 'The Abundance' trades fake family happiness for something real". The Plain Dealer.
"Amit Majmudar puts the 1947 'Partitions' on a human scale: New in Paperback". The Plain Dealer. "Indian American Novelist Amit Majmudar Named Ohio’s First Poet Laureate". India West. "Ohio’s first official poet says writing isn’t work". The Columbus Dispatch. "To Take Out Trump, Hillary Clinton Must First Dispense With Her Inner Politician". Time.
External links Amit Majmudar at the Poetry Foundation Amit Majmudar at Penguin India