Daphne Kalotay is the author, most recently, of the novels Sight Reading and Russian Winter (Harper), which won the 2014 New England Society Book Award and the 2011 Writers’ League of Texas Fiction Prize, respectively, and have together been published in 21 languages. Her fiction collection, Calamity and Other Stories (Doubleday), includes work first published in the Literary Review, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Good Housekeeping, and Prairie Schooner, and was short-listed for the 2005 Story Prize. Other awards for her writing include fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.