About Daphne

Daphne Kapsali is a writer, translator and Creative Writing tutor, living and working in Athens and London.

She holds a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Arts (writing & visual arts) from the Manchester Metropolitan University, and an MA in Creative and Life Writing, from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Her writing has appeared in a number of publications, including Voices from the Web, Second Anthology (UKA Press, ISBN 1-904781-23-3), States of Matter: Writers of the Year Anthology 2004 (Blue Nose Press, ISBN 0-9544180-2-6), Aesthetica: A Review of Contemporary Artists (issue 5, March 2004), London Writers 2003, the anthology of winning entries of the 2003 London New Writers Competition (ISBN 0902 837 419), and various online publications.

She won the Prose Bursary in the Writers Inc Writers of the Year 2004 Competition, a runner-up prize in the London New Writers 2003 Competition, and the Michael Parnell Prize 2001 for the most promising writer of prose studying writing at undergraduate level, awarded by the University of Glamorgan.

Daphne was the founder and editor of this is it, an online literary and contemporary arts magazine dedicated to promoting the work of new writers and artists. The magazine ran successfully for three years, gaining a loyal following of about one thousand unique visitors per issue, before finally closing down in September 2006, because of mounting work commitments.

Daphne is currently working as a translator between Greek and English. Projects include editing her first novel, researching her second, plannning a succesor to this is it, and collaborating with New Media Pubic Artist Eileen Botsford on World 2.5, an exploration of Athens in the new millennium.