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, she is a graduate of the MFA creative writing program at Columbia University.

Writing
Brown Girls, a novel about a group of multicultural young girls growing up in immigrant families in New York City, was published November 15, 2022 by Random House.

The novel was shortlisted for the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023.

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.