Daphne Kalotay Explained

Daphne Kalotay
Citizenship:United States and Canada
Alma Mater:Vassar College, Boston University
Notableworks:Calamity and Other Stories, Russian Winter, Sight Reading
Awards:Florence Engel Randall Fiction Prize, Transatlantic Review Award from The Henfield Foundation, 2011 Writers' League of Texas Fiction Prize

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[1] and holds an MA in creative writing and a PhD in literature from Boston University, where she has also taught.[2] In addition, she has taught at Middlebury College and been a writer-in-residence at Skidmore College and Lynchburg College. From 2014 to 2016 she was the Visiting Writer in English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a citizen of both the United States and Canada.[3] She is currently a lecturer at Princeton University.[4]

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 returned to Massachusetts in 2002 and since then has lived in the Boston area.[5] From 2012 to 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.[6]

Critical acclaim

Kalotay has received numerous awards for her fiction, including the 2011 Writers' League of Texas Fiction Prize for her novel Russian Winter [7] and the Florence Engel Randall Fiction Prize and a Transatlantic Review Award from The Henfield Foundation.[8]

Her novel Sight Reading won the 2014 New England Society Book Award[9] and was a finalist for the 2014 Paterson Fiction Prize.[10]

She has been awarded fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Bogliasco Foundation,[11] and Yaddo. Her short fiction collection, Calamity and Other Stories, was shortlisted for the 2005 Story Prize.[12] 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.[13]

Bibliography

Books

Short fiction

Essays

Book reviews

Poetry Translation

Interviews

Notes and References

  1. Book: Kalotay, Daphne . Daphne Kalotay

    . Daphne Kalotay . 2006 . Calamity and Other Stories, Author bio.

  2. Book: Kalotay, Daphne . Daphne Kalotay

    . Daphne Kalotay . 2010 . Russian Winter, Jacket copy.

  3. Web site: Athenæum Authors: Daphne Kalotay . 2017-11-27.
  4. Web site: Creative Writing Faculty: Daphne Kalotay . 2017-11-27.
  5. Web site: Athenæum Authors: Daphne Kalotay . 2013-09-14.
  6. Web site: One City One Story . 2017-11-27 . 2021-05-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210526150258/https://bostonbookfest.org/one-city-one-story/ . dead .
  7. Web site: Scribe: News You Can Use from the Writers' League of Texas . Writers' League of Texas. 2011-02-02 . 2013-06-02.
  8. Web site: Harper Collins: The Story Behind the Book: Russian Winter . Harper Collins . 2013-06-02 .
  9. Web site: 2014 NES Book Awards Winners. 2017-11-27.
  10. Web site: The 2014 Paterson Fiction Prize . 2017-11-27 . 2016-03-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160306011621/http://www.pccc.edu/uploads/df/dd/dfdd57aec012caaa3f195083ead7e594/Paterson-Fiction-14w.pdf . dead .
  11. Web site: Bogliasco Fellowships Recipients: 2012-2013 Academic Year . The Bogliasco Foundation . 2013-06-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130120030553/http://www.bfny.org/english/BF_2012-13_Recipients.pdf . 2013-01-20 .
  12. Web site: The Story Prize: 2005 short list. 2013-06-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20130304214131/http://www.thestoryprize.org/2005_short_list.html. 2013-03-04. dead.
  13. Web site: Author's website . 2013-06-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130530173556/http://daphnekalotay.com/ . 2013-05-30 . dead .

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