Karolina Letunova grew up in Western Siberia. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her work appears or is forthcoming in AGNI, The Offing, and Longleaf Review, among others, and was a 2022 finalist for the Chautauqua Janus Prize. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Monson Arts. She’s at work on a novel.
Fiction
Winter 2023
We Break Apart
All day, I stand in my place at the end of the line, but I prefer the surety of nights, when I return to the snug hold inside my mother, […]
Fiction
Winter 2023
This Story of Migration Exists in Two Languages, and Why Shouldn’t It?
Before the USSR collapses, Grandmother stitches scraps into clothes, calls me lastochka. Swallows migrate. Same body belongs to two places. For twenty years now, I live on the opposite side […]