![]() ![]() Kalisha’s other honors include a Friends of American Writers Award for Conception, a Pushcart Prize nomination, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship and Phi Beta Kappa induction. It is published in the UK and France, an American Library Association ALEX Award winner, a Hurston/Wright Foundation Debut Fiction Finalist, a New York Public Library’s Best Books for Teens and an inaugural “Literature for Justice” title for National Book Foundation. Terry McMillan gave Kalisha the only Young Author Award in her name for the novel. ![]() Kalisha’s debut novel Upstate introduced her in such media as People, Elle, Marie Claire, The Guardian/London Observer and Essence, as one of their “Three Writers to Watch.” Chadwick Boseman co-narrates the audiobook and it won a Literary Fiction Audie Award. Her novel, the mystery Running to Fall, was published in 2022 by the historic African American Literature Book Club (). She is also seen on ID, BET and TV-One true crime shows as an expert. Her short stories have been printed in Fiction, Fiction International, Oxford American, Black Renaissance Noire, Michigan Quarterly Review, pluck! and more. Solemn and Speaking of Summer: a book pick of Essence, O Magazine, TIME, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmo, Buzzfeed, Lit Hub and more. Kalisha is author of the novels Upstate, Conception, Kalisha Buckhanon is a writer, speaker and commentator creating stories and media about African-Americans, women, love and justice. ![]() Kalisha Buckhanon is a Top 30 Bestselling Author Making Our List 9 Times ![]()
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