Daphne Kalotay is a writer and educator who in her work has explored the lives of Boston artists. Kalotay holds an MFA and a PhD in modern and contemporary literature from Boston University. She later taught in the MFA program at BU and at UMass Lowell, and she currently teaches creative writing at Emerson College. Kalotay is also a visiting writer at UMass Boston. She has been the recipient of a number of fellowships, including one from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. Her first book was the collection Calamity and Other Stories (2005). Her next effort, Russian Winter (2011) was the winner of the 2011 Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Prize. Her second novel, Sight Reading (2013), was a Boston Globe bestseller and the recipient of the 2014 New England Society Book Award. 

"Muse Micro-Interview 8: Daphne Kalotay"

Sight Reading review in the Boston Globe