Aruni Kashyap

Aruni Kashyap is Associate Professor of English & Creative Writing and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia, Athens, and 2024-2025 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow. Kashyap is the author of His Father’s Disease: Stories (Lubin & Kleyner, 2021) and the novel The House With a Thousand Stories (Penguin, 2013). He is also the editor of How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency: Fifteen Tales From Assam (HarperCollins India, 2020), and the translator of two novels from Assamese to English, published by Zubaan Books and Penguin Random House.

Kashyap is the recipient of 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 (FutureCycle, 2021), 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 also been nominated for the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation 2023 and VOW Book Awards 2024.

Kashyap’s 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.

The Way You Want to Be Loved (Book Talk)

October 28, 2024October 18, 2024 By Aruni Kashyap

In agile and frank prose, The Way You Want to Be Loved (Gaudy Boy, 2024) tells the stories of queer, displaced lives from India’s Northeast, an underrepresented region in English fiction.

The Peripheral Imagination: Writing the Invisible India

October 2, 2019May 18, 2012 By Aruni Kashyap

In his lecture, “The Peripheral Imagination: Writing the Invisible India”, Aruni Kashyap will talk about his journey as a writer from India’s northeast – a region that rarely finds representation in India’s literary, cultural and political discourse. He will also briefly discuss the Assamese separatist movement: the backdrop against which his forthcoming novel unfolds. The … Read more