Daphne Maysonet is a Caribbean-American writer whose poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Third Coast, Southern Indiana Review, Chautauqua and The Acentos Review, and whose prose has appeared in Luna Luna Magazine and The Memphis Flyer. Daphne is currently editing poetry for Birdcoat Quarterly and working on a collection of poetry.

She has presented and read at the Association for Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), South Central Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans Poetry Festival, New York City Poetry Festival, Writers for Migrant Justice - Memphis and Kansas City's Fountainverse. 

Daphne received her MFA from the University of Memphis, where she served as lead poetry editor for The Pinch. In Memphis, Tennessee after graduating, she founded and facilitated weekly free community creative writing workshop Memphis Writers.

She was a finalist for the 2024 Kenyon Review Developmental Editing Fellowship and the 2021 Graywolf Citizen Literary Fellowship, and was a semifinalist for the 2025 poetry prize at Southeast Review and a finalist for the 2025 poetry prize at Third Coast.

Daphne teaches English at Augusta University, where she is also the faculty advisor for the Creative Writing Club and coordinator for the Young Writers Competition as well as the Writing Wednesdays community partnership program with arts education nonprofit Jessye Norman School of the Arts.