Kirti Bhadresa is an author 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.  

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 available on October 1, 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

Photo: Jeremy Fox