Vijay Seshadri is an American, Brooklyn, New York–based poet, essayist, and literary critic. Vijay won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, for 3 Sections.
Vijay’s parents immigrated to the United States from Bangalore, India when he was five. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where his father taught chemistry at Ohio State University.
In a 2004 interview, Vijay discussed the creative process and his influences, in particular Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Blake. He also reflects on his cultural influences including the experience of “strangeness” coming of age in Columbus, Ohio during the 1960s.