Kavita Bedford

Kavita Bedford is an Australian-Indian writer with a background in media, anthropology and literature. She is passionate about telling stories from new perspectives that are traditionally left out of the mainstream. Her first novel, Friends & Dark Shapes, was published in 2021 in USA, Italy and Australia to critical response including reviews in The New York Times, The Guardian, and was Shortlisted for the Queensland and NSW Premiers’ Literary Awards and Small Press Network’s Book of the Year. She was the 2021 Writer in Residence at The Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University. She was the Editor of The Point Magazine for MNSW, which explored countering violent extremism and she was the creative producer of a digital media project exploring diverse stories from South-West Sydney. She has worked as a research fellow for UTS on digital diasporas and she was a Churchill Fellow exploring migrant narratives between Australia and Europe. Her non-fiction and short stories have appeared in numerous publications including Guernica, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review. She teaches across anthropology, journalism, writing, and Hatha yoga and loves focusing on issues of voice, place, authenticity, representation, writing practice and embodied creativity.
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