Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of At the Drive-In Volcano (Tupelo, 2007), winner of the Balcones Prize, and Miracle Fruit(Tupelo, 2003), winner of the ForeWord Magazine Poetry Book of the Year and the Global Filipino Literary Award. New poems appear in Antioch Review, FIELD, and Prairie Schooner. She is associate professor of English at SUNY-Fredonia where she was awarded a Chancellor’s Medal of Excellence.