Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar is the author of the poetry collections 0º 0º (2009) and Heaven and Earth (2011), which received the Donald Justice Prize. Majmudar's poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Granta, the New York Review of Books, and the Best American Poetry. His first novel, Partitions (2011), received wide acclaim, with featured reviews in the Wall Street Journal and on the National Public Radio program “All Things Considered.” His second novel is The Abundance (2013). A diagnostic nuclear radiologist, Majmudar lives in Dublin, Ohio, with his wife and twin sons.

 

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Amit Majmudar

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Amit Majmudar is the author of the poetry collections 0º 0º (2009) and Heaven and Earth (2011), which received the Donald Justice Prize. Majmudar's poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Granta, the New York Review of Books, and the Best American Poetry. His first novel, Partitions (2011), received wide acclaim, with featured reviews in the Wall Street Journal and on the National Public Radio program . . .

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