Aimee Nezhukumatathill Aimee Nezhukumatathil was the 2000-01 Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at UW-Madison and is now assistant professor of English at State University of New York-Fredonia. Her chapbook, Fishbone, won the Snail&;s Pace Press Prize and her first full-length collection, Miracle Fruit, won the Foreword Magazine&;s Poetry Book of the Year Award and was chosen by poet Gregory Orr for the Tupelo Press First Book Prize. Other awards for her writing include the Boatwright Prize from Shenandoah, The Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest, an Associated Writing Programs Intro Award in creative non-fiction and several nominations for a Pushcart prize. Poems and essays are published in New England Review, Black Warrior Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and others. She was recently named the SUNY-Fredonia Hagan Scholar for a junior faculty member with distinguished scholarship—the 1st time a member of the Fredonia English Department has won this award. Her second full-length collection of poems, Corpse Flower, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2007.

September 12th, 2006