Vijay Seshadri
The Michele Tolela Myers Chair in Writing
BA, Oberlin College. MFA, Columbia University. Author of Wild Kingdom and The Long Meadow (poetry collections); former editor at The New Yorker; essayist and book reviewer for The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, The American Scholar, and various literary quarterlies; recipient of the James Laughlin Prize of the Academy of American Poets, MacDowell Colony’s Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement, The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Long Poem Prize, New York Foundation for the Arts grant, National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial fellowship, and area studies fellowships from Columbia University. SLC, 1998–
Undergraduate discipline: Writing
Graduate program: MFA Writing Program