Daphne Palasi Andreades

Daphne Palasi Andreades is an American writer, whose debut novel Brown Girls was published in 2022.[1]

Born and raised in Queens, she is a graduate of the MFA creative writing program at Columbia University. Brown Girls, a novel about a group of multicultural young girls growing up in immigrant families in New York City, was published by Random House in 2022.[2]

The novel was shortlisted for the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize,[3] and longlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023.[4]

References
  1. Sana Goyal, "Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades review – raised by Queens". The Guardian, February 23, 2022.
  2. Sunny Hostin, "A Debut Novel About Friendship, Family and Other Ties That Bind". The New York Times, January 4, 2022.
  3. Segal, Corinne (September 29, 2022). "Here's the shortlist for the Center for Fiction's 2022 First Novel Prize". Literary Hub. Archived from the original on December 9, 2022.
  4. Deborah Dundas, "5 Canadians nominated for first Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for women and non-binary writers, worth $150,000 (U.S.)". Toronto Star, March 8. 2023.


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