Amit Majmudar (born 1979)[1] is an American novelist and poet.

In 2015, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio.

[2] Majmudar, a son of Indian immigrants, grew up in the Cleveland area.

[3] He is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in nuclear medicine practicing full-time in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his wife Ami and his twin sons, Shiv and Savya, and daughter Aishani.

His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review,[4] Image,[5] Poetry, National Poetry Review,[6] Smartish Pace,[7] River Styx,[8] and The New Yorker.