Aruni Kashyap is the author of The Way You Want To Be Loved, The House With a Thousand Stories, and the forthcoming How to Date a Fanatic. Along with editing a collection of stories called How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency, he is the translator of four novels from Assamese to English. A 2024 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, he is also the recipient of a 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, which have been shortlisted for the 2023 and 2024 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation and VOW Book Awards 2024, include The Bronze Sword of Tengphakhri Tehsildar by Indira Goswami (Zubaan), My Poems Are Not for Your Ad Campaign by Anuradha Sarma Pujari (Penguin), An Illuminated Valley by Dipak Kumar Barkakaty (Penguin), and Ten Love Stories and a Story of Despair (Westland). He has served as a visiting writer at Lander University, Minnesota State University, Converse University, The College of William & Mary, Valdosta State University, Dibrugarh University, Assam Don Bosco University, and delivered the Tagore Lecture in Modern Indian Literature at Cornell University. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Granta, The Boston Review, Electric Literature, Catapult, Bitch Media, The Kenyon Review, The LitHub, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from the Northeast, The New York Times, The Guardian UK, and others. He also writes in Assamese and is the author of a novel, 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

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EVENTS :

October 3, 2025.
Keynote, Decatur Book Festival, Georgia, with Saeed Jones, Victoria Chang, & Tiana Clark

April 1, 2025
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

March 17 - 20, 2025
The College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia

January 3, 2025
Converse University
Spartanburg, South Carolina

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: Northwestern 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.