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Daphne Guima
︎ dadadaphne1@gmail.com
︎ instagram.com/lasiamesadesiam
Lima, PE ︎︎︎ Toronto, CA
Canadian work experience
- Fellow, Ampersand Inc, June - August 2025
- Intern, Channel Marketing at HTP, HarperCollins, 2024 - 2025 (read more)
- Marketing and Events Coordinator at Flying Books, 2023 - 2024 (view selected works)
- Festival Assistant @ WOTS 2023
Selected writings
PUBLISHED WORK
- “One Day We Will All Die. Who’ll Make Comics Then?” - Article on the Peruvian zine scene (Broken Pencil / 2023 Spring Issue).
- Loneliness as a Crowded Welcoming City: On The Lonely City by Olivia Laing (read original here)
- A Philosophical Reading of Offensive Comedians: On Laughter by Henri Bergson (read original here)
- The Art of Getting Lost: On A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit (read original here)
- Always Connected But at What Cost: On Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig (read original here)
WRITING PROMPTS (in English)
- Design a personal zine: Randomly Noted: Do You Think We Think When We Don’t Think We Are Thinking?
- Listicle: Away From Homesickness: 5 Things to Pack Before You Depart
- First-person essay: Awkwardly Yours, or “The Universal and Embarrasing Tendency to Avert One’s Gaze When Caught Looking at Someone Else”
Online bookstore @lasiamesadesiam / Lima, Peru (2016 - 2022)
Years ago, I founded an online indie bookstore called La Siamesa de Siam. I curated, reviewed, and sent cool, hard-to-find books readers across Peru. I sold more than 400 different titles published by my favourite foreign and local presses, as well as works by self-published Peruvian authors and artists. In 2017, I ran a newsletter, and in 2020 and 2021, I launched merchandise designed by indie brands and illustrators from Peru and Japan. I put the bookshop on hiatus in February 2022.
- Instagram (2016 - )
- Merchandising (2020 - 2021)
Selected mentions:
Buensalvaje #1
El otro libro
- Little Free Library organization’s Impact Library Program.