Daphne

KALOTAY

Craft on Draft is a reading series devoted to great fiction—and the mechanics behind it. Three authors read and discuss their work, plus that of one lucky audience member. So grab a drink, a page of your own writing, and come craft your own draft.

Daphne Kalotay

kalotay238Daphne Kalotay is the author, most recently, of the novel Sight Reading (HarperCollins)—a finalist for the 2014 Paterson Fiction Prize and winner of the 2014 New England Society Book Award for Fiction. Her fiction collection Calamity and Other Stories (Doubleday) was short-listed for the Story Prize and includes work first published in Agni, Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, and Good Housekeeping, among others. Her award-winning debut novel Russian Winter (Harper) was an international bestseller and has been published in 21 languages. Daphne holds a PhD in Modern and Contemporary Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing and has received fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo. You can learn more and buy her books here: http://daphnekalotay.com/books/