Daria Lavelle, Author at Reactor

Daria Lavelle is a speculative fiction writer. Her short stories have appeared in The Deadlands, Dread Machine, Dark Matters, and elsewhere, and her debut novel, Aftertaste, was published in 2025 by Simon & Schuster (US) and Bloomsbury (UK), and has been translated into thirteen languages. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and raised in the New York metro area, she holds degrees in writing from Princeton University and Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in New Jersey with her family, and can often be found in a local coffee shop, inventing new worlds or distorting this one. Learn more at darialavelle.com. (Photo credit: Caroline Baptista)