Faculty Instructor
Language, Literature and Performing Arts
Creative Writing
About
Shashi Bhat is the author of the short story collection, Death by a Thousand Cuts (McClelland & Stewart, 2024) and the novels The Most Precious Substance on Earth (M&S, 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. Shashi's fiction won the Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize and was shortlisted for a National Magazine Award and the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award. Her stories have appeared in publications across Canada, including Hazlitt, Best Canadian Stories 2018, 2019, and 2021 and The Journey Prize Stories 24 and 30. Shashi is also the editor-in-chief of EVENT magazine.
Education and credentials
- MFA, Johns Hopkins
- BA, Cornell