Kalani Pickhart is an events manager at the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. She is a first generation college graduate, earning both a B.A. in English literature and an M.F.A. in creative writing at Arizona State University.
Kalani is the author of I Will Die in a Foreign Land, winner of the 2022 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and long-listed for the Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly Review, and elsewhere.