Thursday, October 26, 2023
Workshop
10 – 11 am CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Memorial Library, First Floor, SW Corner
This event is free and open to the public.
Craft Talk
3 – 3:50 pm CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Centennial Student Union Room 245
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
Reading
7:30 – 8:15 pm CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Centennial Student Union Ostrander Auditorium
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
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, 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. He also writes in Assamese and is the author of a novel called 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