Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is at work on a collection of food essays, forthcoming from Ecco. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller 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’s Book of the Year. She has four previous poetry collections and her most recent chapbook is LACE & PYRITE, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. She is poetry editor for SIERRA magazine and professor of English at the University of Mississippi’s MFA program.

A Taste of Wonder

Mint

Can I find any lasting solace in the color green? —Naomi Shihab Nye, “Mint Snowball” YOU CAN SMELL IT before you spot it, one of the first fragrant greetings of spring. Continue reading