![]() Her second, At the Drive-In Volcano, won the 2007 Balcones Poetry Prize. Her first collection, Miracle Fruit, won the 2003 Tupelo Press Prize and the Global Filipino Literary Award in Poetry, was named the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year in Poetry, and was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award and the Glasgow Prize. She is author of four poetry collections. They live in Oxford, Mississippi, with their two sons. She is married to the writer Dustin Parsons. She is professor of English in the University of Mississippi's MFA program. She has also taught at the Kundiman Retreat for Asian American writers. ![]() In 2016–17 she was the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi's MFA program. ![]() Nezhukumatathil received her BA and MFA from the Ohio State University. Nezhukumatathil draws upon her Filipina and Malayali Indian background to give her perspective on love, loss, and land. Aimee Nezhukumatathil ( / ˈ eɪ m i n ə ˌ z u k u m ə ˈ t ɒ t ɪ l/ Malayalam Abugida: നേഴുകുമറ്റത്തിൽ Malayalam: born in 1974 in Chicago, Illinois ) is an American poet and essayist. ![]()
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