Daphne Kalotay’s debut novel, the international bestseller Russian Winter, won the 2011 Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Prize and has been published in over twenty foreign editions. Her second novel, Sight Reading, a Boston Globe bestseller, won the 2014 New England Society Book Award in Fiction, and her most recent novel, Blue Hours, was a 2020 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read.” Her just-released fiction collection The Archivists won the 202 Grace Paley Prize and includes “Relativity,” the 2017 One City One Story Boston selection. A dual American/Canadian citizen, Kalotay grew up in New Jersey and spent her summers in Ontario, earning degrees from Vassar College and Boston University’s Creative Writing Program, where she earned both a Master’s and PhD, and where herstories won the Florence Engel Randall Fiction Prize and a Transatlantic Review Award. Kalotay lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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