Daphne Alloway McVicker (March 14, 1895 – May 24, 1979) was an American writer, mainly of short stories, and a comic memoir, The Queen Was in the Kitchen (1944).

[1] McVicker published hundreds of poems and short stories in magazines and newspapers.

[7] McVicker was a member of Theta Sigma Phi, and spoke at their annual banquet in 1930.

[8] In 1940 she won the Headliner Award from Theta Sigma Phi's successor organization, the Association for Women in Communications.

"[10] Her story "I Weep for You" (Cosmopolitan, June 1945) is a campus romance involving a disabled veteran of World War II.