Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments. She also wrote four previous poetry collections, including Oceanic. Her most recent chapbook is Lace & Pyrite, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. 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. 

Aimee is poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the storytelling arm of Sierra Club. She is a professor of English and creative writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program, and her forthcoming book of food essays is called Bite by Bite.