Kavita Bedford

Kavita Bedford is an Australian Indian writer with a background in journalism, anthropology and literature. She is a Research Fellow at University of Technology’s Digital Studies Program and the 2020–21 WestWords Writer in Residence at the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University. Her first novel Friends & Dark Shapes (Text, 2021) was shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, and the Queensland Literary Awards’ Fiction Book Award. Her journalism and short fiction have also appeared in Guernica, the Saturday Paper, Literary Hub, the Guardian and Griffith Review, and she was a 2018 Churchill Fellow exploring migrant narratives.