Kalisha Buckhanon is the author of the novels Solemn (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006), Conception (St. Martin’s Press, 2016), and Upstate (St. Martin’s Press, 2008). Her honors include a Literary Fiction Audie Award, American Library Association ALEX Award, Friends of American Writers Award, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, Hurston-Wright Awards nominations, and special Young Author award from novelist Terry McMillan. “Searching on 147th Street” is from Speaking of Summer, due out in the summer of 2019 from Counterpoint.

Fiction Stories by Kalisha Buckhanon

Speaking of Summer

Number 64