Kavita Bedford

Kavita Bedford is an Australian-Indian writer. Her first novel, Friends & Dark Shapes, was published in 2021 in Australia, USA and Italy, and was shortlisted for the NSW Premiers' Literary New Fiction Award, the Small Press Network's Book of the Year 2022 and The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award. Her writing has appeared in a range of publications including The Guardian, Guernica, Literary Hub, The Saturday Paper and Griffith Review.