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Aruni Kashyap

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Associate Professor
Director of Creative Writing Program (On Leave 2024 - 2025)

 

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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, a Willson Centre 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. 

How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

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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 

 

INTERVIEWS [SELECTED]

Grants:

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

  • 2023    Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation (shortlist)
  • 2023    National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
  • 2022    Nominated for the BEST OF THE NET 2022 by The Florida Review  
  • 2022    Faculty Research Grants in the Humanities and Arts Program, Willson Center for Humanities & Arts
  • 2022    Nominated for the 58th Georgia Writer of the Year Award
  • 2020    Notable Essays of 2020 in Best American Essays 2021.
  • 2020    Arts Lab Faculty Fellowships, Willson Center for Humanities & Arts
  • 2018     (Finalist) Four Way Books Poetry Prize.
  • 2018     (Finalist) Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize.
  • 2009    Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing, University of Edinburgh,                     Scotland, U.K.
Selected Publications:

OP-ED / COMMENTARY

ON LITERATURE

Articles Featuring Aruni Kashyap

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