Aruni Kashyap is the author of The Way You Want To Be Loved (Gaudy Boy), The House With a Thousand Stories (Penguin), and the forthcoming How to Date a Fanatic (HarperVia). Along with editing the short story collection How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency, he is the translator of four novels from Assamese to English.
A 2024 Fellow at the 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 fifty-eighth Georgia Author of the Year Awards 2022, and a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and the Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. He is an associate professor of English & creative writing and the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia, Athens.