Daphne Kalotay

Daphne Kalotay

Kalotay grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Vassar College before moving to Massachusetts to attend Boston Universitys Creative Writing Program. There, her stories went on to win the schools Florence Engel Randall Fiction Prize and a Transatlantic Review Award from The Henfield Foundation. She remained at BU to complete a PhD in Modern & Contemporary Literature and, with Saul Bellow as her advisor, wrote her doctoral dissertation on the works of Mavis Gallant. Her fiction collection, Calamity and Other Stories, was short listed for the 2005 Story Prize, and her debut novel, the national and international bestseller Russian Winter, won the 2011 Writers League of Texas Fiction Prize, made the long list for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, was nominated for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and has been published in over twenty foreign editions. Daphnes second novel, Sight Reading, was a Boston Globe bestseller, a finalist for the 2014 Paterson Fiction Prize and winner of the 2014 New England Society Book Award in Fiction. Relativity, from her collection-in-progress, was the 2017 One City One Story Boston selection. Her newest novel, Blue Hours, is a 2020 Massachusetts Book Awards Must Read. Her forthcoming fiction collection, The Archivists, won the 2021 Grace Paley Prize and will be published in 2023.