Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of two collections of poetry: At the Drive-In Volcano (Tupelo, 2007), awarded the Balcones Prize, and Miracle Fruit (Tupelo, 2003), winner of the Global Filipino Literary Award. She is an associate professor of English at SUNY-Fredonia, where she was awarded a Chancellor’s Medal of Excellence. Nezhukumatathil lives in western New York with her husband and son.

Photograph by Marion Ettlinger.