P1066388 cropped 1Astrid Blodgett is an Edmonton short story writer and editor. Her second collection of stories is This is How You Start to Disappear. 

Astrid’s first collection, You Haven’t Changed a Bit, was long-listed for a ReLit Award, a runner up for the 2013 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and a finalist for the High Plains Book Award for Short Stories. 

Her stories have been read on CBC radio’s Alberta Anthology and appeared in The Journey Prize Anthology, Meltwater: Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre for the Arts, Inostrannaya Literatura, Connect (a Danish textbook), and several Canadian literary magazines. Her writing has received a number of awards, including the City of Edmonton’s Seven Arts Club Scholarship and the James Patrick Folinsbee Award (University of Alberta) and has been short-listed for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story.

An enthusiastic backpacker and canoe tripper,  Astrid co-edited and co-published Recipes for Roaming: Adventure Food for the Canadian Rockies with Janet Pullan and Brenda McIntyre.