Shashi Bhat

… is the author of the story collection Death by a Thousand Cuts(opens in new tab), and the novels The Most Precious Substance on Earth(opens in new tab), and The Family Took Shape(opens in new tab).

Her fiction has received the Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for fiction, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, and the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award, and was longlisted for the Giller Prize.

Shashi’s work has appeared in such publications as Hazlitt, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Best Canadian Stories, and The Journey Prize Stories. She is the editor of EVENT magazine and teaches creative writing at Douglas College.