Shashi Bhat

Her fiction has appeared in publications across North America, including 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 was the winner of the 2018 Journey Prize and was a 2018 National Magazine Award finalist for fiction. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a Bronwen Wallace Award finalist.

Shashi has served on juries for the Canada Council and the National Magazine Awards, and has been a contest judge for The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, and the Professional Writers Association of Canada. She has given readings and participated on panels for the Vancouver Writers Fest, Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, Jaipur Literary Festival, Word Vancouver, the Growing Room Festival, Fraser Valley Literary Festival, and other events. She is an organizer of the annual Indigenous Voices reading series sponsored by EVENT magazine and Douglas College and is a former member of the board of directors for the Magazine Association of BC.

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.

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