Paperback, 79 pages

Poetry. Asian American Studies. LUCKY FISH travels along a lush current--a confluence of leaping vocabulary and startling formal variety, with upwelling gratitude at its source: for love, motherhood, new hope, and the fluid and rich possibilities of words themselves. With an exuberant appetite for my morning song, my scurry-step, my dew, anchored in complicated human situations, this astounding young poet's third collection of poems is her strongest yet.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of LUCKY FISH (2011); AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO (2007), winner of the Balcones Prize; and MIRACLE FRUIT (2003), winner of the Tupelo Press Prize, the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in poetry, and the Global Filipino Award. Her poetry and essays have been widely anthologized and have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, FIELD, Mid-American Review, and Tin House. Aimee was awarded a 2009 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, has twice served as a faculty member at the Kundiman retreat for Asian-American writers and has given readings and workshops from Amsterdam to San Francisco. She is associate professor of English at State University of New York-Fredonia, where she is a recipient of the campus-wide Hagan Young Scholar Award and the SUNY Chancellor's Medal for Scholarly and Creative Activities. She lives with her husband and two young sons.