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Aimee Nezhukumatathil (neh-ZOO / KOO-mah / tah-TILL) is the author of the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES, WHALE SHARKS, & OTHER ASTONISHMENTS (2020, Milkweed Editions), which was chosen as Barnes and Noble\\u2019s Book of the Year. She has four previous poetry collections: OCEANIC\\xa0(Copper Canyon Press, 2018),\\xa0LUCKY FISH\\xa0(2011), AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO\\xa0(2007), and\\xa0MIRACLE FRUIT\\xa0(2003), the last three from Tupelo Press.\\xa0Her most recent chapbook is\\xa0LACE & PYRITE, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her writing appears twice in the Best American Poetry Series, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and\\xa0Tin House.

Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pushcart Prize, a Mississippi Arts Council grant, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. In 2021, she became the first-ever poetry editor for SIERRA magazine, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi\\u2019s MFA program.

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