Aruni Kashyap

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). 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.

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

ENGL6800: Graduate Fiction Workshop (Novel & Novella Writing Workshops)

ENGL4800W: Advanced Creative Writing: 

ENGL4695: Topics in Postcolonial Lit: 

ENGL2400: Multicultural American Literature

ENGL3800: Introduction to Creative Writing

PUBLISHED BOOKS 

• How to Date a Fanatic (Harper Via 2026).
• The Way You Want to Be Loved (Gaudy Boy 2024)
• There is No Good Time for Bad News (FutureCycle Press 2021).  
• How to Tell a Story of an Insurgency (HarperCollins 2020).
• His Father's Disease (Flipped Eye Press, 2021).
• The House With a Thousand Stories (Viking 2013)

Translations :

• Ten Love Stories and a Novella of Despair by Anuradha Sarma Pujari (Westland 2026).
• An Illuminated Valley, by Dipak Kumar Barkakati (Penguin Random House 2025)
• My Poems Are Not for Your Ad-Campaign (Penguin Random House 2023) by Anuradha Sarma Pujari.
• The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar by Indira Goswami (Zubaan Books, 2013). 

INTERVIEWS [SELECTED]

• Professor of Poetry and Prose, Khabar Magazine, Atlanta.
• Michigan Quarterly Review: Life Under an Insurgency: An Interview with Aruni Kashyap By Naheed Patel
• Electric Literature: Poems That Bear Witness to State Violence and Insurgency in Assam
• Catapult: “Mainstream US literary culture is hostile to different ways of writing”: A Conversation with Aruni Kashyap"
• Jaggery A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal : Drunk On Ink Q and A with Aruni Kashyap and ‘There Is No Good Time For Bad News’, poetry collection
• The Indian Express, "From Assam to Minnesota — a collection of stories about migration and displacement."