Shasta Grant

Shasta Grant is the author of When We Were Feral (Regal House, 2026) and Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home (Split Lip Press, 2017). Ann Patchett selected her story, "Most Likely To," as the winner of the 2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest. She was a 2020 Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow and the 2016 Kathy Fish Fellow at SmokeLong Quarterly.

She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and The Best Small Fictions and long-listed for the Wigleaf Top 50. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Epiphany, Gargoyle, cream city review, Hobart, MonkeyBicycle, Wigleaf, and elsewhere.

Shasta received her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and has been awarded writing residencies from Hedgebrook and The Kerouac Project. She has taught writing at Ball State University, The Indiana Writers Center, and several women’s correctional facilities.

She is the Coordinating Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly, a writing coach and editor at One Lit Place, and co-founder of Brown Bag Lit.

She lives in Indianapolis with her husband, Chris Huntington, their son, two cats, and a dog.