Kalani Pickhart

Biography

Kalani Pickhart is the author of I Will Die in a Foreign Land (Two Dollar Radio, 2022), winner of the 2022 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and long-listed for the Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award.

See Work

FICTION / Winter 2022

Mnohaya Lita

By Kalani Pickhart ,  Illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

Oksana and Ruslana, Ukrainian girls playing in the streets of Lwów: dolls and sticks and rope. Sunup-sunset, never a cloud in the sky, even when it rains. Always tying and buckling one another’s shoes. When they fall or get scraped, they...

Illustration by Wesley Allsbrook