Daphne Palasi Andreades is an author and educator from Queens, New York. Her debut novel, BROWN GIRLS, was published by Random House in 2022, and has since published internationally in the UK and Commonwealth (India, Australia, South Africa, and more), France, and Germany. In the U.S., BROWN GIRLS was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was a finalist for several awards: the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which is the largest prize for women and non-binary writers in the world, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the New American Voices Award, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. After graduating from CUNY Baruch’s Honors College in 2015 with a double major in English and psychology, she went on to earn her MFA in Fiction at Columbia University. She is currently at work on her second novel.

While Daphne was an undergraduate at Baruch, she served as Managing Editor of the school’s literary arts journal, Encounters. She interned at Poets & Writers magazine and The Rebecca School’s special education art program. She took several creative writing classes at Baruch, did an independent study in English/creative writing, and wrote an honors undergraduate senior thesis, a collection of short stories titled, Homeland, which won Baruch’s Outstanding Thesis of the Year in 2015.

Daphne is proud that her novel, BROWN GIRLS, was assigned as Baruch’s First-Year Text for two years in a row. She will be returning to Baruch as the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence for spring 2024, where she will teach a fiction writing workshop.

Website: www.daphnepalasiandreades.com