Daphne Palasi Andreades

Daphne Palasi Andreades is an artist and educator from Queens, New York. Daphne’s innovative debut novel, Brown Girls, was hailed as “fearless” by The New York Times, and was a finalist for several prestigious awards: the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction—the largest prize for women and nonbinary writers in the world—the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the New American Voices Award. Her work has been taught to students across numerous universities and writing workshops, and has been published in over seventy countries. In 2024, she served as the Writer-In-Residence at The City University of New York, Baruch College. She earned her MFA from Columbia University. Lucid Dreams is her second novel.