Astrid Blodgett is a short story writer living in Edmonton. Her second collection of stories, This is How You Start to Disappear, was long-listed for the Writers Guild of Alberta Short Story Collection Award; her first collection, You Haven't Changed a Bit, was long-listed for a ReLit Award in 2014 and was 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.

In another life, she co-edited Recipes for Roaming: Adventure Food for the Canadian Rockies. Besides writing, Astrid loves multi-day river trips and very long walks, especially Camino Edmonton.