Dr. Khem Aryal

Associate Professor of English

Education

• PhD in English (Creative Writing, and Rhetoric and Composition), University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 2015
• MPhil in English, Pokhara University, Kathmandu, 2006
• MA in English, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, 1999
• BA in English and Economics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, 1994

Teaching Specialties

• Creative Writing 
• Creative Writing Studies
• Composition Studies
• Asian American Literature 

Courses Taught

• Creative Writing 
• Advanced Creative Writing
• Graduate Seminar in Asian American Literature
• Introduction to Fiction
• Advanced Composition 
• Composition I
• Composition II

Recent Publications

Books:

• The In-Betweeners (short story collection), Braddock Avenue Books, 2023 
• South to South: Writing South Asian in the American South (edited collection), Texas Review Press, 2023
• Kavya: Representative Nepali Poetry in English (Co-edited collection), Grey Sparrow Press, 2022 and Vajra Books, 2023
• His Grandma Blues (chapbook), Belle Point Press, 2022 

Short fiction:

• “Visa for Mama,” Valley Voices, Spring 2023 (forthcoming) 
• “Overstayed,” Reed Magazine, Spring 2022  
• “Shopping for Glasses,” South Carolina Review, Spring 2022  
• “How Not to Come to America,” The Pinch, Fall 2021 
• “His Grandma Blues,” Pangyrus, Spring 2021  
• “Laxman Sir in America,” Valley Voices, Spring 2021 
• “Election, 2017,” Literary Studies, Spring 2020 
• “Comrade Buffalo Breeder,” FU Review, 2020 
• “Thapaliya-ji the Social Worker,” Tint Journal, 2019 
• “Kahersingh Kami,” Isthmus, Fall 2018  

Articles and Essays:

• “Circling Back: Making Space for Theories in the Creative Writing Classroom” (book chapter), Innovative Practices in Creative Writing Teaching, edited by Graeme Harmer, 2023 
• “Retooling Workshops of Empire: Globalizing Creative Writing with an Edge.” New Writing:  The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, Fall 2021 
• “Changing Landmarks,” Bookends Review, Fall 2021  
• “The Old Man and Hemingway,” Arkansas Review, December 2021