Vijay Seshadri

Poet

Bronxville, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Vijay Seshadri is the author of 3 Sections, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; The Long Meadow, winner of the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; Wild Kingdom; and The Disappearances. Seshadri has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the NEA, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He was born in Bangalore, India, and came to America as a small child. He is currently the Myers Professor of Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
3 Sections (Graywolf Press, 2013)
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The Disappearances (Harper Collins, 2007)
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The Long Meadow (Graywolf Press, 2004)
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Wild Kingdom (Graywolf Press, 1996)
Journals:
New Yorker
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Poetry
Prizes won: 
  • Pulitzer Prize for 3 Sections, 2014
  • Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation
  • James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, The Long Meadow, 2003

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Born in: 
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Last update: May 17, 2019