Join us for a conversation with writers Daphne Palasi Andreades and Fajr Muhammad to discuss and celebrate Andreades’ book BROWN GIRLS over Zoom. Andreades’ reading will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Fajr Muhammad.

Locally owned bookstore, Harriet’s Bookshop is offering copies of BROWN GIRLS for purchase. This event is made possible by the generous support of the Penn Treaty Social Services District.

Daphne Palasi Andreades was born and raised in Queens, New York. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded a Henfield Prize and a Creative Writing Teaching Fellowship. She is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference scholarship, among other honors. Brown Girls is her first novel.

Fajr Muhammad is a writer and editor from Philadelphia, PA. She earned her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University and B.A. in English with a minor in Women’s Studies from Kutztown University.

Her writing has been featured in the Columbia Journal Online and The Hennepin Review and she was recently named 2021 runner-up for the Marianne Russo novel-in-progress award with the Key West Literary Seminar. Her work has received fellowships from the Tin House Summer Writers’ Workshop, the Rhode Island Writers Colony and the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat.

She is the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology “How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising” from Common Notions Press and the Paul Robeson House & Museum and is on the Blue Stoop advisory board, a nonprofit dedicated to Philadelphia writers.