Daphne Beal was educated at Brown and New York universities. A former editor of the New Yorker, she has also done editorial work for Artforum and The Chinati Foundation’s publication Art and the Landscape.
She has received fellowships from The New York Times, the Vermont Studio Center, and was given honorable mention from the O. Henry Short Story Prize in 1997.
During her residency Ms. Beal worked on her novel that explores the expatriate Buddhist community in Kathmandu and young Nepali women working in the red-light area of Bombay.