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Daphne Palasi Andreades

Daphne Palasi Andreades is a writer from Queens, New York. Her short stories have been featured in Joyland, Kweli Journal, and Encounters. She is a recent graduate of Columbia University’s MFA fiction program, where she was awarded the 2018 Henfield Prize and a Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship. She also received fellowships and scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, where she won first place for the 2018 Voices of Color Prize, and other institutions. She is at work on a short story collection and several novellas.

Jan/Feb 2020

Brown Girls

By Daphne Palasi Andreades

2019 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Winner Read a micro-conversation with the author here. Brown Girls We live in the dregs of Queens, New York, where airplanes fly so low […]

Daphne Palasi Andreades

Daphne Palasi Andreades is a writer from Queens, New York. Her short stories have been featured in Joyland, Kweli Journal, and Encounters. She is a recent graduate of Columbia University’s […]