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EVENTS :

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

February 6th, 2023
Visiting Writer, Department of English,
Lander University,
Greenwood, South Carolina.

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 has also translated two novels from Assamese to English, published by Zubaan Books and Penguin Random House. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Faculty Research Grants in the Humanities and Arts Program, 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 Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. 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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