Daphne Palasi Andreades

Daphne Palasi Andreades (she/they) 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. Daphne was the 2024 Sidney Harman Fiction Writer-In-Residence at The City University of New York, Baruch College. Her work has been taught to students across numerous universities and writing workshops, and has been published in over seventy countries. She earned her MFA from Columbia University. Lucid Dreams is her second novel.