Daphne Kalotay
Daphne Kalotay is a novelist and short story writer who lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. She is known for her novels, "Russian Winter" (Harper, 2010) and "Sight Reading" (Harper, 2013), and her collection of short stories, "Calamity and Other Stories" (Doubleday, 2005), which was short listed for the 2005 Story Prize. She is a graduate of Vassar College and holds an MA in creative writing and a PhD in literature from Boston University, where she has also taught. In addition, she has taught at Middlebury College and been a writer-in-residence at Skidmore College and Lynchburg College. From  2014-16 she was the Visiting Writer in English at University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is a citizen of both the United States and Canada. She is currently a lecturer at Princeton University. Biography. Kalotay was raised in Madison, New Jersey and attended Vassar College. In 1993, she moved to Brookline, Massachusetts to attend Boston University's Masters Program in Creative Writing and remained at Boston University to complete a PhD in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the now-defunct University Professors Program. Studying under her advisor Saul Bellow, she wrote a dissertation on the Canadian writer Mavis Gallant and  graduated in 1998. In 1999, she moved to Vermont for a term position at Middlebury College, where she taught for the English department. She return to Massachusetts in 2002 and since then has lived in the Boston area. From 2012-2014, she served as co-president of the Women's National Book Association's Boston chapter. In 2017, her short story "Relativity" was the One City/One Story Boston selection. Critical acclaim. Kalotay has received numerous awards for her fiction, including the 2011 Writers' League of Texas Fiction Prize for her novel "Russian Winter" and the Florence Engel Randall Fiction  Prize and a Transatlantic Review Award from The Henfield Foundation. Her novel "Sight Reading" won the 2014 New England Society Book Award and was a finalist for the 2014 Paterson Fiction Prize. She has been awarded fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Bogliasco Foundation, and Yaddo. Her short fiction collection, "Calamity and Other Stories", was shortlisted for the 2005 Story Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the "New York Times", the "New Yorker", "Washington Post", "The Guardian", "The Rumpus", the "Boston Globe", the "Philadelphia Inquirer", "O Magazine", "The Oregonian", "Good Housekeeping", "USA Today" and dozens  of other publications.