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- ISBN 9781680034714
- Weight: 284g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Texas Review Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Migrating Craft: The Art and Practice of Contemporary U.S. Writers with Immigrant Roots brings together twenty essays by contemporary U.S. writers on their art and craft. Representing a wide range of cultures, literary traditions, and writing genres, these authors reflect on their creative processes, craft techniques, and relationships to language. They also explore how literary heritage and aesthetic principles from their countries of origin intersect with, or resist, the dominant Western frameworks of craft taught and celebrated in the United States. Rather than treating immigrant experience as peripheral, these essays place it at the center of artistic innovation and practices, showing how multiple heritages enrich and expand contemporary U.S. writing. This anthology offers a window into diverse creative practices and a reimagining of craft itself—craft as something continually shaped by movement, history, and the porous boundaries between cultures and languages.
Khem K. Aryal is the author of the short story collection The In-Betweeners and the fiction chapbook His Grandma Blues. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such journals as The Pinch, Reed, South Carolina Review, New Writing, and Pangyrus. He is also the editor of South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South (TRP 2023) and the series editor for TRP's Creative Writing Studies series. An associate professor of creative writing at Arkansas State University, he is a 2025 recipient of the Catalyze Fellowship from Mid-America Arts Alliance.
