Born in Chicago to a Filipina mother and a Malayali Indian father, Aimee Nezhukumatathil received her BA and MFA from Ohio State University and is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of five poetry collections, including Miracle Fruit (Tupelo Press, 2003), winner of the Tupelo Press Prize and the Global Filipino Literary Award; Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press, 2018), winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award; and Night Owl (Ecco, 2026). Her illustrated essay collection World of Wonders (Milkweed Editions, 2020) was a New York Times bestseller. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow.
