BED PRASAD UPRETY

Bed Prasad Uprety was born and raised in Phulganchi, a village in Jhapa, eastern Nepal, in the foothills below the Himalayas. The son of a Hindu Brahmin farmer, he grew up in a household where devotion preceded ambition and gratitude preceded acquisition values he carried, questioned, lost, and slowly recovered across two decades of searching.

He holds a Master's degree in English Literature from India and a degree in Management from the Netherlands, where he studied from 2006 to 2010. He has worked as a visiting lecturer at universities in China, teaching in cities whose speed and ambition mirrored and clarified his own history with material striving. He has also taught extensively in Nepal, including years in Bhaktapur, the ancient Newari city whose temple bells and living traditions continue to shape his literary imagination.

Alongside his academic and professional life, Uprety has spent significant years in the study and practice of meditation and spirituality under the guidance of teachers in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The integration of inner and outer life has been not a philosophical project but a lived necessity, forged through personal upheaval, the 2015 earthquake, the COVID years, and the particular education of a life that did not go as planned.

He is the author of multiple published works of fiction and memoir, including Ashes of Devotion, Back Home in a Coffin, Bride, The Distance Between Us, The Earth Shakes, The Gods Remain, The Seeker's Path, The Unforgotten Gems, and Where the Soil Ends. His writing draws on years of living across Nepal, Europe, and Asia to explore themes of grief, belonging, spiritual hunger, and the quiet negotiations between the world we inherit and the life we choose. His books are available across major digital platforms worldwide, with an established international readership across English-speaking markets.