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.