Kavita Bedford is an award-winning Australian-Indian writer with a background in journalism, anthropology, and literature. She was a 2018 Churchill Fellow exploring migrant and refugee narratives, and was the former editor of The Point magazine, exploring the impact of overseas conflict on diaspora communities. She is the creative producer of a grassroots storytelling project, Mapping Frictions: Stories from Western Sydney. Friends & Dark Shapes is her first novel.
