Kalisha Buckhanon

Kalisha Buckhanon is author of the novels UPSTATE, CONCEPTION, SOLEMN and SPEAKING OF SUMMER with short stories, essays and articles widely-published since 2000. She was a true crime expert for BET, ID Channel and TV One shows for ongoing study or writing in areas of justice, crime, mystery and suspense. She loves culture, books, films, vegetarian food, live music, theater and teaching all things language arts. Since her own educating at University of Chicago and The New School, she's been an inner-city educator from preschool to college to senior levels, including a year teaching English to foreigners in Midtown Manhattan. Visit her author life at Kalisha.com or her blog and creative services home negression.com.