Story Catcher Festival

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the book of food essays, Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees, and the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments. She also wrote five previous poetry collections, including Night Owl and 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, NAAEE’s 2024 Pepe Marcos-Iga Award for Innovation in Environmental Education, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She is the poetry editor for Sierra magazine, the storytelling arm of The Sierra Club. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi’s MFA program.