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About Daphne

Daphne Santana Strassmann is a Memoirist. She writes about the intangible spaces between her Latino heritage and her American life. She’s passionate about memoir as craft and its relationship to memory, especially in the digital age. As an academic, she teaches bright first-year college students, and budding memoirists in several Boston universities. Her work has been featured in Creative NonFiction, GrubWrites, Tex{t}Mex, and several textbooks. Daphne runs generative writing seminars every month in different locations in the Boston area, she leads a group of memoirists at MIT, and she coaches organizations with big-scale writing projects. Creating physical and metaphorical spaces where writers can engage or re-engage with their process is a big part of what inspires and motivates her teaching.