Aimee Nezhukumatathil
@nezhukumatathil.bsky.social
🇵🇭🇮🇳 roller-skater since I was ten • school supplies • gardens • bioluminescence • axolotls • Buckeye • NYT bestselling author • NIGHT OWL (Ecco, Spring 26) aimeenez.net
Andy Weir is launching an audio drama banner with Audible, and the first project out of the gate is Exoplanet, written by @benjaminpercy.bsky.social and starring Anthony Mackie, Ariana DeBose, and John Leguizamo. I spoke with both of them about how it came about and what to expect:
Andy Weir is producing Exoplanet, an audio drama for Audible
Benjamin Percy wrote the story, which stars Anthony Mackie, Ariana DeBose, and John Leguizamo
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TONIGHT the Aimieey Trifecta reads our poems! Please join us, even if your name isn't Amie! Link to register here - it's free! On the zoom! 6pm ET August 20! www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/phosphoresce...
Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!
The Tacoma Police Department estimates over 30 cats were free-roaming on board a deserted watercraft Thursday - with no sign of the owner.
A ghost ship with a crew of cats? Empty boat near Tacoma beach full of mews
The Tacoma Police Department estimates over 30 cats were free-roaming on board a deserted watercraft Thursday - with no sign of the owner.
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Longtime friend of Orion @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social is a New York Times bestselling author, a firefly lover, and a poet. But did you know she was also the mascot in high school? This and other delightful illuminations in the Orion Questionnaire. orionmagazine.org/article/aime...
Aimee Nezhukumatathil Answers the Orion Questionnaire
In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.
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NEWS: Knox County is Tennessee's 3rd largest county, and it voted for Trump by 20%. It has a GOP-run school board known for banning books & approving controversial charter schools. Democrats last night flipped control of the school board in Knox County.
Dear Rocky Mountain National Park, I’ll never get over you
I feel like this would heal a lot of us 😅
the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social · 2mo agowe must recover the old wisdom
It’s out and in the wild! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
10 hot books to read in July, cool new releases from Colson Whitehead and more
From the highly anticipated conclusion to Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy to a new memoir from the author of 'Silver Linings Playbook,' here are 10 must-read books hitting shelves this July.
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From @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social's book, Lucky Fish. Published by the lovely @tupelopress.bsky.social #poem #booksky #writing
#SealeyChallenge Day 2/31: Night Owl by @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social I love immersing myself in the beauty of Nezhukumatathil's writing. I’m starting to see a theme emerging in the poems I flag as favorites. My favorites are “Firefly Ars Poetica,” “Solar Eclipse,” and “Why I Hate Deadlines.”
I myself am a night owl and I’ve been reading Aimee’s wise and beautiful poems before going to bed. Treat yourself and buy this book!
Aimee Nezhukumatathil@nezhukumatathil.bsky.social · 2mo agoI guess after two books of essays, I felt some kind of way about returning to stanzas 😂😅! Here’s a sampling of what I’ve been up to in NIGHT OWL, my newest poetry collection:
I guess after two books of essays, I felt some kind of way about returning to stanzas 😂😅! Here’s a sampling of what I’ve been up to in NIGHT OWL, my newest poetry collection:
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps
This is the best poetry collection I’ve read in a long time! The diction, the themes, the structure of both poems and the collection as a whole…magnificent! This is a library copy, but I’m buying my own today to annotate. Thank you @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social for this shining gift of a book 📖🌖
Just finished Night Owl by @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social & now it's one of my favorite collections of poetry. Her poems have brought laughter, tears, a sense of wonder & seeing the world anew. It is gloriously transcendent in tenderness and wisdom.
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Many thanks to The Missouri Review for featuring my upcoming essay collection, MY HUNGRY GHOSTS, in their newsletter today! (You can preorder a copy here: blairpub.com/shop/p/my-hu...) @blairpub.bsky.social
Super beautiful Hopkins rose nudibranch, tidepooling this morning at Asilomar! 🌊
Tomato season and blaring “Dancing On My Own,” on the highway— INJECT THAT INTO MY VEINS! 🍅
Next time that happens, just point them in the direction of this absolute banger of a poem by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
Are All the Break-Ups in Your Poems Real?
If by real you mean as real as a shark tooth stuck in your heel, the wetness of a finished lollipop stick, the surprise of a thumbtack in your purse— then…
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“Each pencil feels like perhaps it is okay to linger, to listen, to get a line wrong—and try again,” writes Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Night Owl (@eccobooks.bsky.social). Read more: at.pw.org/WRNezhukumatathil2
Loved having this conversation with the amazing Samaa Abdurraqib, Amy Leach, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil!! writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/FY26/202...
The Big Conversation
Samaa Abdurraqib, Amy Leach, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Jeff VanderMeer discuss nature’s deep influence on their writing process.
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In this interview for our Southern Summer Book Club, Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Bradley Sides talk all things poetry and NIGHT OWL.
The Southern Summer Book Club: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Check out the first video interview in our 2026 Southern Summer Book Club with Bradley Sides and Aimee Nezhukumatathil!
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