Vijay Seshadri

Vijay Seshadri: with a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Columbia University, he is the author of Wild Kingdom, The Long Meadow, The Disappearances (New and Selected Poems, Harper Collins, India), and 3 Sections (September, 2013). He is a former editor at The New Yorker, essayist and book reviewer at The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, The American Scholar, and various literary quarterlies. He is the recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, James Laughlin Prize of the Academy of American Poets, and The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize. He currently teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.