Amit Majmudar
Introduction '''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, 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'''* * * * ''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
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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''. * "Four lives displaced by the dividing of India; Books and Authors". ''The Seattle Times''. * "A New Wave". ''The Virginian-Pilot''. * "3 books about restless Indians". ''The Washington Post''. * "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