Daphne Palasi Andreades

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

Early Born and raised in Queens, New York, she is a graduate of the MFA creative writing program at Columbia University, where her mentors were Paul Beatty and Elissa Schappell.

Writing Brown Girls, a novel about a group of multicultural young girls growing up in immigrant families in New York City, was published January 4, 2022 by Random House. International editions were published in the UK and Commonwealth, France, and Germany.

The novel was a finalist for several prestigious prizes including: the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the 2022 New American Voices Award, and the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023. It was a semifinalist for the 2022 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.

Awards

Brown Girls was named a New York Times Editors' Choice and an Indie Next Pick by booksellers across the U.S. It was also named one of the Best Books of the Year by Popsugar and Kirkus.