Daphne Palasi Andreades (she/they) is an artist and educator from Queens, New York. Daphne’s forthcoming second novel, Lucid Dreams, will be published in the U.S. on October 27th, 2026 by Random House, and is available for preorder. It is also forthcoming in the UK and Commonwealth, and Germany. Daphne’s first 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 is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Fiction program, where she received the Henfield Prize and a Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship. Currently, she is at work on her third novel, a screenplay, and short stories. She lives in New York City.
Daphne Palasi Andreades