Kirti Bhadresa is a writer living in Calgary, Alberta (Treaty 7). Kirti has fiction and non-fiction writing in The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Short Edition’s dispensers, The Sprawl, Thin Air Magazine, The Quarantine Review, and Room Magazine.
In 2021, Kirti graduated from Own Voices Alberta, a mentorship program for emerging writers and was a 2022 finalist for an Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Award for Feature Writing.
Kirti's first book, a short story collection entitled An Astonishment of Stars, was acquired by Jen Sookfong Lee of ECW Press and will be published in 2024.
With funding from Canada Council for the Arts and The Calgary Arts Development Association, Kirti is working on her next book, a novel.
Kirti is represented by Carolyn Forde at Transatlantic Agency.
Contact: kbhadresa(at)gmail.com
Instagram: @beingkirti
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