Kirti Bhadresa lives in Calgary, Alberta on Treaty 7 territory. Kirti has fiction and nonfiction writing in many publications including The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, and Room Magazine. Her first book, a short story collection entitled An Astonishment of Stars, was published in October 2024 by ECW Press. The book was on the CBC Most Anticipated list and became an indie bestseller. It was a 2025 Writers’ Guild of Alberta Fiction Finalist and was longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize.
