Rukmini Maria Callimachi

Rukmini Maria Callimachi Biography

Rukmini Maria Callimachi (born 25 June 1973 in Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian-American journalist and poet.

Life

She left Romania during the communist regime with her mother, father and grandmother, for Switzerland and then the United States. She graduated from Dartmouth College, and from Exeter College, Oxford, with a masters in linguistics. In 2000, she co-led the Royal Geographical Society's expedition to Tibet.

Career

She began as a freelancer in New Delhi, India including for Time magazine. She joined the Associated Press in Portland, Oregon, in 2003. She spent a year in New Orleans documenting the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She began reporting out of Dakar, Senegal, as a West African correspondent for The AP in late 2006.

Her poetry has been published in The American Scholar, Oxford poetry, and Black Warrior Review.

Awards

2011 Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award from Ball State University for her article, "Haiti-Hotel Montana".
2009 Pulitzer Prize Finalist "for her in-depth investigation of the exploitation of impoverished children in West and Central Africa"
2009 & 2012 Michael Kelly Award finalist
2007 Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, "Coverage of Hurricane Katrina aftermath," The Associated Press
2004 John M. Templeton Religion Story of the Year award, The Daily Herald (Ill.), "Passage from India"
1998 Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry

Works

Poetry

"The Anatomy of Wildflowers", Keats Shelley

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