Shashi Bhat's short fiction has been published in several journals, including PRISM Interntaional, Event Magazine, The Threepenny Review, and The Missouri Review. Her story "Why I Read Beowulf" appeared in The Journey Prize Stories 24, and her story "Indian Cooking" was a finalist for the 2010 RBC Bronwen Wallace Writers' Trust Award. She currently resides in Halifax, where she teaches at Dalhousie University.