High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rukmini Maria Callimachi (born Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian American journalist and poet. 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. 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, Black Warrior Review.