Vijay Seshadri

Vijay Seshadri

Vijay Seshadri is a Brooklyn, New York-based poet, essayist, and literary critic of significant repute.

He was born in India and went to the United States in 1959, at the age of five. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and has lived in many parts of the country, including the Northwest, where he spent five years working in the fishing industry, and the Upper West Side of Manhattan, NY, where he was a sometime graduate student in Columbia’s Ph.D. program in Middle Eastern Languages and Literature.

His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in "AGNI", "Antaeus", "Boulevard", "Epiphany", "The Nation", "The New Yorker", "The Paris Review", "Shenandoah", "The Southwest Review", "The Threepenny Review", "Verse", and "Western Humanities Review". A collection of his poetry, "Wild Kingdom", was published in the spring of 1996 by Graywolf Press. 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, the MacDowell Colony's Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement, as well as a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He holds an A.B. degree from Oberlin College and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. He is a former member of the New Yorker editorial staff and he currently teaches poetry and is the director of the graduate non-fiction writing program at Sarah Lawrence College.


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