Shashi Bhat is the author of the story collection Death by a Thousand Cuts and the novels The Most Precious Substance on Earth and The Family Took Shape. She won the Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize; was a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, a National Magazine Award, and the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers; and was longlisted for the Giller Prize. She is the editor of EVENT magazine and teaches creative writing at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC.