SHASHI BHAT is the author of the story collection Death by a Thousand Cuts (McClelland & Stewart, April 2024), longlisted for the Giller Prize, and the novels The Most Precious Substance on Earth (M&S, Canada, 2021; Grand Central, 2022), a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for fiction, and The Family Took Shape (Cormorant, 2013), a finalist for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.
Her fiction has appeared in publications across North America, including Hazlitt, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, The Threepenny Review, The Missouri Review, Best Canadian Stories 2018, 2019 & 2021, Journey Prize Stories 24 & 30, and others. She won the 2018 Journey Prize. She has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award for fiction and the Bronwen Wallace Award, and has been long-listed for the Commonwealth Prize.
Shashi has served on juries for the Canada Council, the BC Arts Council, and the National Magazine Awards, and has been a fiction contest judge for The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Room magazine, and others. She was a judge for the 2024 Commonwealth Prize. She has appeared in literary festivals across Canada, including the Vancouver Writers Fest, Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, Jaipur Literary Festival, and others.
Shashi holds an MFA from The Johns Hopkins University and a BA from Cornell University. She is editor-in-chief of EVENT magazine and teaches creative writing at Douglas College.