Aruni Kashyap writes in English and his native Assamese. He is the author of His Father’s Disease: Stories (2019), The House With a Thousand Stories (2013), Noikhon Etia Duroit (2020), and the poetry collection There Is No Good Time for Bad News (2021). 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 is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, Athens, and an Editor-at-large with the Southern Review of Books. You can find him on Twitter: @AruniKashyap and Instagram: @arunikashyap.
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