Vijay Seshadri was born in India and came 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, 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, 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. He currently makes his home
in Brooklyn, with his wife and son.
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