Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write Series: author Aimee Nezhukumatahil to read at the University of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that author Aimee Nezhukumatahil will read from her work for all who are interested on Tuesday, February 19, 2019. The reading will take place at 6:00 pm in the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center.
Aimee Nezhukumatahil was born to a Filipino mother and Malayali Indian father, and is the author of four books of poetry: Oceanic (2018), Lucky Fish (2011), winner of the Hoffer Grand Prize for Prose and Independent Books; At the Drive-in Volcano (2007), and Miracle Fruit (2003).
Her collection of nature essays World of Wonder is forthcoming. With Ross Gay, she co-authored Lace & Pyrite (2014), a chapbook of nature poems.
In 2014, she became one of the country’s youngest poets to achieve the rank of full Professor of English. She teaches environmental literature and poetry writing in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi.
Aimee Nezhukumatahil also serves as the poetry editor for Orion magazine.
The Creative Writing Program aims to introduce and engage both undergraduate and graduate students in various writing courses including fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, drama, screenwriting, and more. These courses are offered to students of all majors in order to engage and include all that are interested in joining this growing creative writing community at the University of Connecticut.
The reading, sponsored by the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, the English Speakers Fund, the Creative Writing Program, and the UConn Bookstore, is free and open to the public. The UConn Bookstore is located at 1 Royce Circle, Storrs, CT 06268, and can be contacted at 860- 486-8525. For more information, please visit the Creative Writing Program’s website at www.creativewriting@uconn.edu
For more information, contact: English Department at (860) 486-2141