Shashi Bhat is the author of Death by a Thousand Cuts (McClelland & Stewart), longlisted for the Giller Prize; The Most Precious Substance on Earth (M&S, Grand Central), a finalist for the Governor General's Award for fiction; and The Family Took Shape (Cormorant), a finalist for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Her fiction received the Writers’ Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Shashi is the editor of EVENT magazine and teaches at Douglas College.