Aruni Kashyap is the author of His Father’s Disease: Stories and the novel The House With a Thousand Stories. He has edited a collection of stories called How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency, and also translated two novels from Assamese to English. Aruni is the 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, was a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry.
Aruni’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, shortlisted for the Armory Square Prize in South Asian Literature in Translation, Best of the Net, and mentioned as a notable essay in Best American Essays anthology 2022. He also writes in Assamese and is the author of a novel called Noikhon Etia Duroit. Aruni works as an Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he is also the director of the Creative Writing Program.
His books:
My Poems Are Not for Your Ad Campaign
Ten Love Stories & a Novella of Despair