About

Aashish Kaul was born in India, and educated in India and Australia. His writing has been published in Australia, Britain, India, and North America. His books include A Dream of Horses & Other Stories and the chess-inspired novel The Queen’s Play. He is currently Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He has previously also been a visiting fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala.

A new novel, Bliss Mountain, touching upon economic and financial history, modernist architecture, romantic literature, and the natural world, can now be ordered through retailers worldwide including Amazon & Barnes & Noble.

Kaul also maintains an interest in photography. Some of his work has been included in juried exhibitions at galleries in Athens, Budapest, Minneapolis, and Rome; and in competitions such as All About Photo, Chromatic Awards, and Monovisions Photography Awards. A solo photography exhibition titled “Some Ideas Are Only Feelings” recently ran at the Space Place Gallery in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. His series of landscape photographs titled “Himalaya: In Search of the Miraculous” is available for purchase in a special edition collection from Docu Magazine, Finland.