Bangalore-Born Vijay Seshadri Wins Pulitzer For Poetry

Wednesday, 16 April 2014, 00:47 IST
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Seshadri, who came to America at the age of five, grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where his father taught chemistry at Ohio State University, according to his biography on the website.

He has lived in many parts of America, including the Pacific Northwest where he spent five years working in the fishing and logging industries.

His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in The American Scholar, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, the Times Book Review, and in many anthologies, including Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets, Contours of the Heart, Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times, and The Best American Poetry 1997 and 2003.

Seshadri has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been awarded The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize and the MacDowell Colony's Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement.

He holds an AB degree from Oberlin College and an MFA from Columbia University.

He currently teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

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Source: IANS