Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar is an American novelist and poet. In 2015, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio.
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.
Novels
- Partitions, Metropolitan Books, 2011.
- Sitayana, Penguin, 2019.
Poetry
- Dothead, Knopf, 2016
- Godsong : a verse translation of the Bhagavad Gita