Kalina is a Pushcart Prize nominee and poet, but her fiction and creative nonfiction have also been published. She is a high school English teacher.
Books
Selected work
Miss Moby Dick
Arkansas Review, 2026
Lemon Dropped
Discretionary Love, 2026
A Wondrous State
Dandy Magazine, 2026
Double Red Flags
Shadowplay, 2026
5 poems
Blood+Honey, 2026
Spring Surprises
SLANT, 2025
A Crown of Orchids
Cerasus Magazine, 2025
Skin Deep
Schlock! Webzine, 2025
Gratitude for Grading
Teach. Write., 2025
Miss Smith
Teach. Write., 2025
Lover’s Mine
Micromance Magazine, 2025
What I Can’t Teach
Porcupine Literary, 2025
Affectionate Artillery
Ink and Marrow, 2025
Aubade with a Mockingbird Witness
Dipity Lit Mag, 2025
The Bleeding Box
Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine, 2025
He(at)e
Pfudalmda Dadamag, 2025
Anticlimax
Lunchbreak Review, 2025
Blackwork
Tulsa Review, 2025
One Good Friend
The Font: A Literary Journal for Language Teachers, 2025
She Wanted Purple Jeans for Christmas
ONE ART: a journal of poetry, 2024
The B-Grandkid
Down in the Dirt, 2025
Written Archaeology
Down in the Dirt, 2025
Jagged Life
redrosethorns journal, 2024
Epinephrine
redrosethorns journal, 2024
Orion's Killer
The Cackling Kettle, 2024
Delta Blues
FLARE: the Flagler Review, 2024
Ode to Blue
The Ignatian Literary Magazine, 2022
The Highest Point
Free Spirit, 2022
A Torch on Andromeda
Nebo, a Literary Journal, 2019
I Am Blue
Nebo, a Literary Journal, 2018