Associate Professor Aimee Nezhukumatahil has been named the recipient of the 2009 William Thompson Award for Outstanding Alumni Career Achievement by Ohio State University.
A member of the faculty in the Department of English at SUNY Fredonia, Ms. Nezhukumatahil teaches creative writing and environmental literature. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1996 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction in 2000 from OSU.
Earlier this year, Ms. Nezhukumatahil was named a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, earning one of 42 Literature Fellowships for poetry and completing against some 1,700 applicants. Her most recent book of poetry, “At the Drive-In Volcano,” won the Balcones Prize, an honor for the most outstanding book of poetry. She is the recipient of SUNY Fredonia’s William T. Hagan Young /Scholar Artist Award and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award in Scholarship and Creative Activities.
One of the most exciting outcomes of receiving the award, noted Ms. Nezhukumatahil, who is a huge OSU football fan, is meeting Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin and being his guest at a September football game.
