EVENTS :
September 29, 2024
Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn, NY
Oct 1, 2024
Asian American Writers’ Workshop
New York
October 18, 2024
The Way You Want to Be Loved
Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Oct 19 & 20 2024
Singapore Literature Festival
April 12, 2024,
The Rabindranath Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature, 2024
South Asia Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
April 05, 2024
Keynote Speaker, Nexus24
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
February 2024
AWP24
Yes We Exist, America: Queer South Asian Stories & Why They Matter
Indian Writers Challenge State Violence
Kansas City, Missouri
November 18, 2023
Translating Borderlands & IndignityNorthwestern UniversityEvanston, Illinois
October 26, 2023
Good Thunder Reading Series Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota
Sept 15 & 16, 2023
JLF Houston 2023
Texas
February 23 & 24th, 2023
Visiting Writer, Department of English, Valdosta State University,
Valdosta, Georgia
Aruni Kashyap is the author of His Father’s Disease: Stories and the novel The House With a Thousand Stories. Along with editing a collection of stories called How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency, he translated two novels from Assamese to English, published by Zubaan Books and Penguin Random House. Recipient of a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Faculty Research Grants in the Humanities and Arts Program, the Arts Lab Faculty Fellowship, and the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh, his poetry collection, There is No Good Time for Bad News, was nominated for the 58th Georgia Author of the Year Awards 2022, a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, and the Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. His translations have been nominated for the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation 2023 and VOW Book Awards 2024. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Catapult, Bitch Media, The Boston Review, Electric Literature, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from Northeast, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, The Guardian UK, and others. He also writes in Assamese and is the author of a novel called Noikhon Etia Duroit and three novellas. He is an Associate Professor of English & Creative Writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia, Athens. Email: aruni.kashyap@uga.edu
Literary Agent :
Lucy Cleland
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